alt Hacker Newsthat would have required them to swallow their pride, and admit GNU tools were in demand, which didn't fit the marketing narrative.
that would have required them to swallow their pride, and admit GNU tools were in demand, which didn't fit the marketing narrative.
They could've also just built a real package manager, left it up to the community to add GNU tools. I remember the Solaris package situation being annoying, having to download crap off FTP and install manually. Or often build from source.
Solaris was pretty bare bones, out of the box. I spent days customizing it. Even early Linux distros, like Slackware, were in better shape.