On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:14:19 +0800 "El Toro La Casa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That article ignored the fact that there are other free UNIX-like OSes > like the free BSDs. Well, there's a reason why the BSDs are far less popular than GNU/Linux wound up becoming. IIRC, they got tied up in legal wrangles with UC Berkeley and AT&T during the early-mid nineties just when the Internet was starting to become important, and so GNU/Linux, without the same issues, captured developer mindshare and kept it even after the legal wrangles died down a few years later. Had 386BSD, the ultimate ancestor of FreeBSD and its kindred, existed in usable form in 1991, Linus Torvalds might never have embarked on his history making project, and the Free OS of choice might well be a BSD-based one, and GNU Hurd might not have been stuck in the development limbo it's in today. It's a wrinkle in history on the scale of Digital Research refusing to license CP/M to IBM in 1980. > Maybe it would be better to ask that: > Would Linux exist without the Internet? The answer to that is simple: no. And probably neither would the BSD kernels, at least in their Free forms. -- Si vis pacem, para bellum. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com
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