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  • Well, that is not entierly accurate…

    Yes, Unix was paid, but companies didn’t switch to Linux, they switched to Windows.

    So the cost of Linux doesn’t have anything to do with this.

    The reason why Unix workstations died was that Windows became good enough and PCs we getting good enough.

    Windows PCs were cheaper than Unix workstations, and if they are good enough then there is no reason for a company to pick something else.

    Then we have the last nail in the coffin, Itanium.

    Itanium was supposed to be the future, Intel marketed it hard enough that companies that had previously developed their own CPUs decided to switch to Itanium and stopped developing their own CPUs.

    Then when Itanium proved to be a crap shoot, they had nowhere to go.