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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4376 comp.os.linux.misc:31439 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!pacbell.com!well!henryh From: henryh@well.sf.ca.us (Henry Hwong) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Date: 11 Dec 1994 21:56:23 GMT Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3cfsi7$eab@nkosi.well.com> References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <maericksD0Mu2u.Dpy@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: well.sf.ca.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Mark Erickson (maericks@netcom.com) wrote: : In article <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>, : Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote: : >What has LINUX done for UN*X? : First operating system assembled by volunteers worldwide in an open, : inclusive fashion? : --Mark Erickson (maericks@netcom.com) I think BSD qualifies for that honor. Although the code itself was restricted by the AT&T copyright, many people on the net contributed to the earlier releases of BSD -- many universities had a 32V(?) license, which gave a lot of students access to it. That's why a lot of operating systems research used BSD as a starting point.