Re: Linus Geek of the Week

["Al Wheeler-2" <user=1343@nabble.blu.org>]

 Jerry Feldman wrote: 

> 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