On 28/10/06 11:35 +0530, jtd wrote: <snip>
Inspite of BSD being more complete and useable before linux was being written?. BSD 4.3 (afair) was available for $100 on 30 5.5" floppies ( and ran a whole lot of engineering software in 1988 (afair). (That
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AT&T happened.
was why i had written to them for a set of floppies. ) Logically it should have had far more traction than linux inspite of the legal hassles. And it would have made sense for IBM or anyone
It did. But managers tend to take a dim view of lawsuits (unless the company involved is really, really big, like IBM or MSFT). AT&T vs BSD was Goliath vs David. Also, *BSD at that time did not run on IDE disks, which most home users had (and still have).
else to use BSD. But the problem was (imo) the licence. Others could take away your code, screw the market and sit back. Bad for u in the short term and the longterm.
If you pay IBM enough money, they will even support *BSD, and provide code.
Devdas Bhagat