On Wed, 2016/01/13 12:23:52AM -0500, Alvin Starr <[email protected]> wrote:
| The problem that the early BSD variants faced was AT&T licensing.
| If there was only BSD around it may have stayed closed for a long time
| even to today.
|
| Eventually linux developed enough of a following that the value for
| AT&T,SCO,Microsoft et al had no real value in trying to hold on to the
| rights.
I don't think that's a reasonable interpreation of the history. BSDI and
AT&T settled in 1994, at which point I think it was fair to say that
proprietary UNIX still had significant value. (Sun machines with Solaris
were a huge part of the internet insfrastructure until the early 2000's -
or later.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Design
My personal opinion is that if linux didn't exist, FreeBSD would likely be
dominant, and that things would be very similar to what we currently have.
Cheers!
John
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