Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:51:31 -0500 From: Alejandro Imass <aimass@yabarana.com> To: merlyn@geeks.org Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd or linux Message-ID: <CAHieY7TCoSV-h92UJtff4HmMAqfe3Mgk=R26g1Xi%2Bpwuo6TUeA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20181211041849.GA75666@geeks.org> References: <mailman.4254.1544437045.5224.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <efacbaca245398375b8994ddb37c3534.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <CAHieY7Ru_6BAJpwzxGLm4_EBDj3qJk=2_ZYjN__7-G6AAOmi2g@mail.gmail.com> <20181211041849.GA75666@geeks.org>
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:18 PM Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> wrote: > You can find bits and pieces all over on the history. > > [...] Wow! Thanks A LOT for taking the time to answer. I kew a few of these things and have picked up bits and pieces as well but you answered some questions I have never seen explained elsewhere. Some things are curious though. The initial release date of NeXT is 1989 (derived from 4.3BSD-Tahoe released in 1988) but I think that it still had some AT&T code in it so you still had to obtain a license from AT&T to run any form of BSD. So AT&T did license to NeXT in one form or another after all ;-) So I guess that bottom line is that were few options (if any) for Jobs in 1988. The other curious thing and somewhat unrelated (or not?) is how close 386BSD FreeBSD were to Linux (both in '91, FreeBSD actually '92). So if only for a few months, Linux would probably not exist. But I wonder if the whole Free Software-later-Open Source movement would have played out in much the same way. Ironically, FreeBSD is more free than "Free Software" per the FSF-GPL. Best, Alex
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