Re: Linus Geek of the Week

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

 On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:25:19 -0400 (EDT) 
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> It wasn't until BSD 4.4lite (circa 1994?) were the AT&T encumbrances and 
> legal status resolved. Lest you forget, GNU - GNU is NOT UNIX was a free 
> implementation of "POSIX" without AT&T's license and law suits. 

> While I am a proponent of GPL, I don't agree. The AT&T suit and licenses, 
> more than anything else, prevented development of BSD over Linux. Had AT&T 
> let BSD be unencumbered earlier, there would be no Linux. 

The AT&T suit against the University of California was not a copyright 
suit per se. Had AT&T been successful, according to Lar Kauffman, that 
would have shut down Linux also. 

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