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From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 22:57

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On Wed, 2018-03-21, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes:
>>Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:21:20 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
...
>>>> It took Linus to turn unix into a true, and widely-used,  personal
>>>> operating system.
>>> 
>>> Well ... 386BSD (becoming {Free,Net,Open}BSD was stable a little bit 
>>> earlier, but didn't get Linus' marketing push.
>>
>>That was my other thought: why Linux and not BSD?
>
> I suspect the SYSV v. BSD issue.  Linux is much closer
> to system V than BSD.
>
> Then there was IBM, SGI, HP and others pumping tons
> of money into linux (by allowing employees to contribute
> to Linux on company time, sponsering conventions, etc).

They do that /now/, but I don't remember that they did in the 1990s,
when Linux won.

/Jorgen

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