I agree with you on everything else, but there are tons of *spectacularly* succe... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		blasdel on June 30, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise I agree with you on everything else, but there are tons of spectacularly successful forks of BSD-licensed software -- NetApp, Cisco, Juniper, and most of their competitors have proprietary operating systems that are forked from FreeBSD.

jorgecastillo on July 1, 2010 [–]

Thanks for the info. The only successful software that I could think of was the XNU kernel (Mac OS X) but it is not a fork even though it borrows heavily from FreeBSD for POSIX compatibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact