6 Jan
2017
6 Jan
'17
9:58 a.m.
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 10:56:08PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
Perhaps an interesting area of speculation is,
"what would the world have
looked like if USL v BSDi hadn't happened *and* SunOS was opened to the
world?" I think in that parallel universe, Linux wouldn't have made it
particularly far: absent the legal angle, what would the incentive had been
to work on something that was striving to basically be Unix, when really
good Unix was already available?
Yeah, that was what I was trying to say, you said it better.
Ah well.
Indeed.
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