From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:35:21 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <283f5df10604021316l31fd4ea4k38df941ff7094e6f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: chippo@rmbam.co.za Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2cb49d8e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > The whole AT&T vs. BSD lawsuit fiasco scared alot of people away from BSD. Professionals, maybe, but backyard hackers had little reason to care. I looked at Linux and at 386BSD (and QNX and BSDi) and 386BSD came up tops. Linux had no graphics (nor had the BSDs) and KA9Q as networking (so did the Unix PC, a little earlier, that's what I cut my teeth on), so there was some other factor there that I did not see, then or now. Crazily, it may have been the GNU licence, but I'm not convinced. I'll need to ask my Linux guru (CCed). ++L