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There 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 lega

There 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 ago
Ten 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.