[Golden Eagle]

Open source is a good check on the artificial influence of monopolization

So you don't mind the Linux now outselling the original American Unix products, too? The companies like Cray and Silicon Graphics, which have recently declared bankruptcy?

[antiRepublicrat]

The companies like Cray and Silicon Graphics, which have recently declared bankruptcy?

This is where I was talking about reality. Powerful commodity hardware killed Cray and SGI, not Linux. Pentium computers with workstation graphics cards costing only a few thousand dollars ended up being more powerful than ten thousand dollar MIPS machines with custom graphics. The Opteron caused Cray so much headache in HPC that they actually jumped on the Opteron bandwagon themselves.

[unspun]

So you don't mind the Linux now outselling the original American Unix products, too? The companies like Cray and Silicon Graphics, which have recently declared bankruptcy?

1. Nope.
2. Nope.

Those companies, like most in IT, have sufferred due to obsolescence and their failure to adapt to new technological developments.

There are two ways to overcome such pressures:

1. Develop and adapt (good)
2. Control the market (bad)