History of FOSS and stuff (was: The Silent Woman)

[Coleman Kane]

David W. Aquilina wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:21:39AM -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
>   
>> I downloaded 0.1 of Jolitz on 30-40 5.25" floppies and it wouldn't boot on
>> my system.  OS/2 wouldn't either.  Then I got Linux and it booted and ran.
>> If FreeBSD had cleaned up the Jolitz version sooner, Linux might not have
>> gained its foothold.
>>     
>
> I'd venture a guess that the AT&T lawsuit had a very significant impact on the adoption rate of BSD vs. Linux in the early days. 
>   
Indeed it did. This is one of the predominant reasons why Linux 
implemented their own TCP/IP stack and filtering, rather than bringing 
in the widely-accepted-as-superior-at-the-time Berkeley stack and BPF. 
It is also probably a big reason why GNU Hurd was so slow to get the 
missing parts (and thus, Linux was chosen as the kernel).

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Coleman Kane