On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> 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?

I agree.