In any market, many players enter, but few survive. In the OSS OS market, Linux has risen to the top. BSD has assumed the smaller feisty competitve roll. Like MS & Apple. Now the others are being gradually taken apart and rendered irrelevant. They will disappear, like BeOS. Linux has killed big Unix. And good riddance. Anything worth keeping will be merged into Linux & OSX. There will be a few true believers that will keep the losers alive, limping along for years(Amiga), but nothing will ever really come of it. I do believe that true innovation can only come from small companies though. So I'd look for the next big thing in OSS OSes to come from BSD. As for commercial OSes, Apple of course.

... Programmers Research Institute for Code Kracking Security

maybe there's a connection.

...As we all know, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature. So if you want to stop pirates, increase Global Warming! Go outside right now and run your SUV full throttle in support of Somalian cargo ships! http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/

...am not dead. wait? that wasn't the point?