On 1/3/07, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
what lawsuit - how did it affect things?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi
Linus and Alan Cox have both said that they would be working on BSD rather than Linux if there were no lawsuit at a critical time.
You can google for "BSD lawsuit" for more references and quotes.
-- Vinayak