Re: Bitcoins will become Betamax if we don't do THIS

When you take into account servers and Android OS, I'd say Linux has been fairly successful. There are large numbers of people using it without even realizing it (or caring). Bitcoin can achieve a similar success.

Also don't forget OSX and iOS are both based on the Linux kernel.

I thought it was BSD

Drifting off topic...

My understanding is that the OSX _kernel_ is mostly based on the Mach work. That a good bit of Mach work happened to be integrated into FreeBSD (previously) was mostly tangential. As I understand it, the OSX _userland_ leveraged FreeBSD work, at least early on. More palatable license model upon which to base a commercial product compared to the GNU stuff. I think Android used the BSD-licensed C libraries for similar reasons. Not sure where things stand now.