On 28/10/06 11:35 +0530, jtd wrote: <snip> > Inspite of BSD being more complete and useable before linux was being > written?. BSD 4.3 (afair) was available for $100 on 30 5.5" floppies > ( and ran a whole lot of engineering software in 1988 (afair). (That ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AT&T happened.
> was why i had written to them for a set of floppies. ) > Logically it should have had far more traction than linux inspite of > the legal hassles. And it would have made sense for IBM or anyone It did. But managers tend to take a dim view of lawsuits (unless the company involved is really, really big, like IBM or MSFT). AT&T vs BSD was Goliath vs David. Also, *BSD at that time did not run on IDE disks, which most home users had (and still have). > else to use BSD. But the problem was (imo) the licence. Others could > take away your code, screw the market and sit back. Bad for u in the > short term and the longterm. > If you pay IBM enough money, they will even support *BSD, and provide code. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
