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IIRC patent battles in court with AT&T and code removals from the source which kept 386BSD from getting off the ground quickly..

• musicale 5y ago
  NetBSD and FreeBSD came out in 1993, the same year as Slackware. The BSDs seem like pretty complete Unix systems and are still in use today, but they are also-rans compared to GNU/Linux.
  • hapless 5y ago
    FreeBSD had to reboot the project after some lawsuits -- FreeBSD 2.0 is a different codebase from FreeBSD 1.1 It was a huge setback for every kind of adoption
    • musicale 5y ago
      I didn't actually know that the FreeBSD project had to "reboot" - this is very interesting and adds to the "lawsuit" theory.