[Socrates1]

Its like how MS-Dos became the defacto standard for PC operating systems all those years go.

Actually PC-DOS was the defacto standard. MS-DOS had smaller marketshare.

Were there lots of other operating systems?
You bet!
There were over a hundred of them

Really? Besides CP/M and DR-DOS how many can you name.

Truly delusionary.

Perhaps you should do a little homework before you make idiotic statements about "hundreds" of PC operating systems. If your are talking about minicomputers & mainframes, they are all Unix derivatives (also open source).

Before you ridicule open source, perhaps you could consider that the ENTIRE internet is built on "open source", and includes the specification for HTTP & SMTP/POP3, DNS, et al.

Or did you think that Al Gore worked for Microsoft?

IBM and AT&T once had 80%+ marketshare too. International standards encouraged the competition that trimmed them down to size too.

[KwasiOwusu]

"Really? Besides CP/M and DR-DOS how many can you name.
Truly delusionary."

Delusionary?
You don't say.
You open source crazies really crack me up. :)
Let me see... Off the top of my head I can think of:

Commodore PET (One of the best personal computers ever made)
Radio Shack's PC
Apple Computer
and this was just around 1977 alone.

We haven't even talked about the Sinclair Computer and the BBC computer in Britain, which were hugely popular there at the time. Sold millions
Every sigle one of these had their own operating systems. :)


"Perhaps you should do a little homework before you make idiotic statements about "hundreds" of PC operating system"

Would it be asking too much to ask you to do the same? LMAO!

Naah! The open source "prophet" has spoken, right?