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1. toast0+(OP)[view] [source] 2018-11-27 01:16:52
Android runs on billions of devices and is a fork of Linux. There's two or three commercial forks of MySQL, I think Percona started before Sun bought MySQL, but I can't remember for sure anymore.
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2. softwa+eO[view] [source] 2018-11-27 12:01:16
>>toast0+(OP)
Yeah and it takes a company the scale of Google to maintain it. Not feasible for pretty much anyone else.
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3. icebra+HT[view] [source] [discussion] 2018-11-27 12:57:07
>>softwa+eO
Few small companies can maintain a full OS, regardless of the open source alternatives. Yet FreeBSD, OpenBSD and SmartOS are all still living projects, and none have a Google behind them.
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