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Are you equating success with adoption or use? I would say there are lot's of software that are widely used but are a mess.

What would be a competitor to linux that is also FOSS? If there's none, how do you assess the success or otherwise of Linux?

Assume Linux did not succeed but was adopted, how would that scenario look like? Is the current situation with it different from that?



> What would be a competitor to linux that is also FOSS? If there's none, how do you assess the success or otherwise of Linux?

*BSD?

As for large, successful open source software: GCC? LLVM?


If you click on the link, I mention other competing attempts and architectures, like Multics, Hurd, MacOS and even early Windows that either failed or started adopting Unix patterns.




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