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And Minix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX) in 1987.
by iuguy 17y ago
And Minix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX) in 1987.
- _delirium 17y agoThat one also wasn't free software at the time. From the article you link: MINIX has been free and open source software since it was released under the BSD license in April 2000.
- jacquesm 17y agoPrentice Hall owned the copyrights. Only after minix lost significant ground to linux was minix released under a different license. I think that one was one of Tanenbaums great strategic mistakes. The world of software was definitely 'ready' to adopt minix instead of linux (micro kernel, big name behind it), but 'free' won out, and minix is a footnote whereas linux is the unix with the most distribution ever.