14 Jul
2021
14 Jul
'21
2:32 p.m.
On 14 Jul 2021 10:19 +0200, from angus(a)fairhaven.za.net (Angus Robinson):
Looking at a few online sources, Linus actually said
when "386BSD came out,
Linux was already in a usable state, that I never really thought about
switching. If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux
would probably never had happened".
And all this, of course, ignoring the other issue of what might be
considered a "start to the open source operating system movement",
given that even development of GNU was well underway by the time the
Linux kernel got started (having been worked on since early 1984), and
one might even be able to argue that the early UNIX systems were also,
in a sense, open source.
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