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From: Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@alchemistowl.org>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Historic Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] On the origins of Linux - "an academic question"
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:08:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <407987A1-5591-465B-8A77-0B0FCF98F161@alchemistowl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfo1-1y8EQN-Rf3tB1txYvdXaG52gN7RMZhf9Dx3kamoSQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 17 Jan 2020, at 17:53, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> The AT&T lawsuit (April 1992) post-dated Linus starting on his work (eg 0.12 released January 1992). He said in an interview once he was unaware that net/2 was out and could be leveraged to get a working system when he started. It did give a big boost to Linux at a critical time due to the huge amount of FUD that it created over BSD's future.

Well, that plainly removes the AT&T lawsuit argument from the answers list so the remaining question I had about its origins is clearer.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-17 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-17 16:01 Arrigo Triulzi
2020-01-17 16:53 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-17 17:08   ` Arrigo Triulzi [this message]
2020-01-17 17:25 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-17 19:59 ` Arno Griffioen
2020-01-18  3:50   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-18  4:19     ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD (was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question") Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-18 15:25       ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-18 16:19         ` reed
2020-01-19  2:49       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-19  3:12         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-19  3:47           ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD Warren Toomey
2020-01-19  3:51             ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-19  3:58           ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD (was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question") Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-19 13:25             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-19 13:48               ` Clem Cole
2020-01-20  3:32               ` Greg A. Woods
2020-01-20  3:51                 ` George Michaelson
2020-01-20  3:59                   ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD Jon Forrest
2020-01-20 17:19                   ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD (was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question") Clem Cole
2020-01-20 17:49                     ` Warner Losh
2020-01-20 19:00                       ` Clem Cole
2020-01-20 18:04                     ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-20 18:09                       ` David Barto
2020-01-20 18:34                         ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD Arthur Krewat
2020-01-20 19:18                       ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD (was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question") Clem Cole
2020-01-20 19:46                         ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-20 20:15                           ` Clem Cole
2020-01-21  6:58                           ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-21 14:30                             ` Clem Cole
2020-01-21 17:17                             ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-21 17:22                               ` Warner Losh
2020-01-21 17:25                                 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-21 18:43                               ` Clem Cole
2020-01-21 18:44                                 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-21 19:14                                   ` Warner Losh
2020-01-21 20:27                                     ` Clem Cole
2020-01-22  0:14                       ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD (was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question") Greg A. Woods
2020-01-21  0:44                     ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-20 19:09                 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-20 19:51                   ` Clem Cole
2020-01-20 23:04                   ` Greg A. Woods
2020-01-21  0:13                     ` Warner Losh
2020-01-21 23:45                       ` Greg A. Woods
2020-01-18 15:30     ` [TUHS] On the origins of Linux - "an academic question" Larry McVoy
2020-01-17 23:11 ` Andrew Warkentin
2020-01-17 23:20   ` Rob Pike
2020-01-17 23:38     ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-18  0:23 ` Wesley Parish

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