Re: Linus Geek of the Week

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:32:04 -0400 
"Martin Owens" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> There would be no GNU? that is quite a statement and I'd like it if 
> you can back that up with something. 
> 
> BSD might have been the best thing since slice bread but the license 
> is an academic idealism and doesn't protect the user or the authors. 
> If BSD had been available resulting in no GNU the world would not have 
> a free os at all. 

GNU actually existed back in the 1980s (1985 is when Stallman started 
selling GNU Emacs).  But, it is difficult to speculate on what would be 
i there was no Linux. In 1985 there was a BSD, but that was licensed 
through AT&amp;T. 


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