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> > The lawsuit etc hadn't much to do with Linus not using BSD code IIRC..
>
> You don't recall correctly. This was a major issue in c.o.l.m (or was
> it still c.o.l) probably around 1993.
>
> The parties to the USL lawsuit had to determine what BSD code was
> covered by USL's licensing.
Well, none of the TCP stack ever was; the AT&T networking code was
written after the Berkeley networking code, and the two were very,
very different. FFS, I can perhaps understand. And I do understand
the chill factor, anyway.
> And Linus also stated early on that Linux would never have been
> created had 386BSD come out a few months earlier.
Had it come out a few months earlier, I wouldn't have been surprised
if Linux came out anyway. Bill Jolitz is not the easiest man in
the world to work with.
cjs
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