Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:15:39 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd or linux Message-ID: <20181211081539.2b4131f00305fc85e60527a8@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <CAHieY7TCoSV-h92UJtff4HmMAqfe3Mgk=R26g1Xi%2Bpwuo6TUeA@mail.gmail.com> References: <mailman.4254.1544437045.5224.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <efacbaca245398375b8994ddb37c3534.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <CAHieY7Ru_6BAJpwzxGLm4_EBDj3qJk=2_ZYjN__7-G6AAOmi2g@mail.gmail.com> <20181211041849.GA75666@geeks.org> <CAHieY7TCoSV-h92UJtff4HmMAqfe3Mgk=R26g1Xi%2Bpwuo6TUeA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:51:31 -0500 Alejandro Imass <aimass@yabarana.com> wrote: > The other curious thing and somewhat unrelated (or not?) is how close > 386BSD FreeBSD were to Linux (both in '91, FreeBSD actually '92). So if > only for a few months, Linux would probably not exist. There was another factor which gave Linux breathing space to become workable, the ATT/BSD lawsuit that had the legal status of the BSDs in question until it was resolved in 1994. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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