From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nobozo@gmail.com (Jon Forrest) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 08:59:36 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Why BSD didn't catch on more, and Linux did In-Reply-To: <20180207151347.GA29650@thunk.org> References: <20180206230254.GB1977@thunk.org> <20180207151347.GA29650@thunk.org> Message-ID: <37741189-f19f-5e8f-e91b-92657d3ee72a@gmail.com> On 2/7/2018 7:13 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Well, MIT actually had multiple AT&T Licenses which did *not* have the > mental contamination clause. This was also an issue at UC Berkeley, but with Microsoft Windows. I was working in the Postgres group which Microsoft was very generously supporting with software. There were discussions about getting a Windows source license but the CS department didn't want their people becoming contaminated. I remember the first time I saw Linux. Ironically it was on the desktop machine of a guy who was in the BSD developers office. Jon Forrest