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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&T
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