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> "in the end, my job is to say no. Somebody has to be able to say no to people." This is funny to me, because I feel like Linux got ahead over BSD specificall
by AceJohnny2 6y ago
> "in the end, my job is to say no. Somebody has to be able to say no to people."
This is funny to me, because I feel like Linux got ahead over BSD specifically because it had a more accepting policy in the beginning.
I think this says something important about project maturity and lifecycle. BSD was already a "well established" system by the time the Linux kernel appeared, and as such had more gatekeeping to meet their standards.
- asveikau 6y agoThere was also the licensing/copyright controversy. It wasn't clear that BSD was really free until Linux was already taking off. From 1992-1994 there was a legal cloud over BSD and probably even after that people had lingering doubts that something like that could happen again. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design,_Inc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_In....
- toyg 6y agoTen years later, ironically enough, Linux encountered a similar fate: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._International_Business_Machines_Corp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Internati.... ... and technically it’s not fully settled yet.