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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.