RJack <u...@example.net> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> writes: >> >>> In gnu.misc.discuss RJack <u...@example.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Reason? So do birds. flowers and trees. So what is your point? >>>> You are correct (for once). I don't get it. Statements usually >>>> have to make sense. What's your rhetorical focus? >>> Quite simply, that it is the GPL itself which is the main reason >>> for the popularity of Linux amongst the people who write it. >> >> Well, that's half of the story. Linux has been written to support a >> preexisting GNU userland. And that userland has a tradition of being >> popular and freely available quite before Linux. >> >> And BSD became freely available only some time after GNU/Linux. > > You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. > > "The University of California at Berkeley has a long history of > pioneering software development and software distribution > models. Having existed in some form since the early 1980s, the BSD > licence can claim to be the oldest of the open source licences.
We are not talking about the age of the BSD license(s), but the time when a complete BSD type operating system became available freely. USL v. BSDi was settled just in 1993. <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi> -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
