3 ms·

If I recall correctly, at the time, BSD was stuck in a lawsuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design,_Inc h

by kakwa_ 6y ago

If I recall correctly, at the time, BSD was stuck in a lawsuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc..... I'm wondering if it had a detrimental effect on adoption of *BSD, and thus increased Linux popularity at this early and critical time.

dekhn 6y ago
Many BSDheads I know from that time believe that was the case (I was asked by them "why didn't you go with BSD" and TBH I just liked the GPL license since I had recently read the section about Stallman in Hackers). I think another issue is that linux added new features rapidly which probably helped adoption.
loeg 6y ago
> I'm wondering if it had a detrimental effect on adoption of *BSD, and thus increased Linux popularity at this early and critical time. Linus has said as much[1]: "If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." [1]: https://gondwanaland.com/meta/history/interview.html https://gondwanaland.com/meta/history/interview.html