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Subject: Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?
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At Thu, 11 Jan 2007 it looks like Nikolas Britton composed:

> On 1/10/07, Jeff Mohler <speedtoys.racing@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I dunno..Linux got _somewhere_ before big money came into it.
> >
> > Like I said..when Fbsd 2.5 was light _years_ ahead of Linux..sometime
> > after that, focus was lost.
> >
> 
> USL v. BSDi happened.

I'm not that informed historically and was glad to get this little
tidbit a while ago when tracking down the history of Unix/Linux...

http://wiliweld.com/history.jpg

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