<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Leam Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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My gut feel for the success of Linux is not purely in technical merit<br>
but that Linux has more brain share.</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>I've heard it's also because of the GPL. Things can go from BSD -> GPL, but not the other way around. The GPL folks wouldn't want to dual license to BSD because that kind of defeats the purpose. <div>
-Steve Brown</div>