I have been following along in the early days of Linux vs BSD. Believe it or not, the main reason people especially developers flocking to Linux at the time des

I have been following along in the early days of Linux vs BSD. Believe it or not, the main reason people especially developers flocking to Linux at the time despite the superiority claim of other BSDs of their self-evident stability and security was mainly the licensing of GPL for Linux kernel. It was a stroke of genius from Linus by adopting the GPL but he probably hardly admitting the fact. No decent open source programmer (open source terminology was defined in the midst of this) at the time were willing to compromise people ripping their codes and put them inside other commercial OS, and at the time the usual suspect was Microsoft Windows of course. This very thing happened right infront of their eyes and under their noses when Microsoft literally took the entire TCP/IP stack from FreeBSD, but as a compensation they probably hired some of the FreeBSD folks after that and this latter fact is only speculation. It is really philosophical rather than technical superiority but in technology the superior product hardly win the contest, remember Betamax and VHS?