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Curt Sampson (cjs@cynic.net)
Wed, 12 May 1999 21:15:07 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 7 May 1999, James M. Adams wrote:
> So for someone to imply the Linux/BSD or whatever has stolen code within
> it is a bit rich, and I suspect extremely hard to prove.
Are you kidding? The biggest reason you're using Linux right now,
rather than BSD, is the AT&T lawsuit that chilled the free Unix
community earlier this decade. 386BSD was a fully running system
before Linus had a reasonably fully-featured kernel going.
The lawsuit was eventually settled, a bit of code was removed, and
the BSDs were now considered by AT&T to be fully unencumbered, but
the year and a half it took to do this gave Linux the time it needed
to become a workable system that could compete with 386BSD.
cjs
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