On what evidence do you base this comment?
the fact that everybody rips off BSD code... gives credit...and leaves you no reason to use BSD... since its got nothing useful about it as a stand alone product of its own anymore...
sure OSX used Darwin... but hell.. Windows/Linux and half a dozen other OS's stole parts of BSD... dosent mean BSD itself is doing well...
their going down the tubes... FBSD 5.0 is years late... years.... and for its purposes its pretty obselete.....
because a company couldnt form around FBSD to profit since its a 'totally free' code... wich is why I think their license is a joke...and I'd hate to see anything form out of...
nothing against AROS... but imagine if you had backer and you where able to work full-time (the whole team) on AROS ... and make a living doing it?... would you want to GPL it then? if it where more then a hobby...if it where a fine-tuned product you worked day in /day out on for years to make perfect?... I think not... and if you did GPL It after so long... do you think it would keep developing at the same pace ?.. do you think the code quality would stay the same?...
I doubt it...
Mandrake= Free = went out of business
Red Hat =Free cheap version=costly workstation/server versions= staying in business
same for SuSE and others...
the 'free' versions wich are totally dedicated to giving away their product and not making any money are drying up.... because that was their goal from day 1... to dry up... it was just a hobby anyway..
and if you think its BS about FreeBSD ... compare how BSD did when it was backed by Berkeley in the past with how its doing now not making any money... it was at the forfront of technology... now its at the back end.. with versions bieng released years late... and no 'new' technology offerings in its OS... its gone completely hobby... they sell CD's and T-Shirts to make money... how cool is that?