In gnu.misc.discuss RJack <u...@example.net> wrote: > On 1/11/2011 3:24 PM, Kari Laine wrote: >> Ok alexander,
>> But without FSF we probably wouldn't have Linux. At least it won't >> be as functional as it is today. There are billions of dollars worth >> of GPLed software available to every one of us. > Uhhh... "...probably wouldn't have Linux" ????????? > When Linus decided to license Linux under the GPL in 1991, > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/v0.99/linux-0.99.tar.Z > 386BSD was already written along with complete standard C libraries and > a compiler. Why do you think it is that BSD Unix has not held its own in competition with GNU/Linux? > "Although not released until 1992, development of 386BSD predated that > of Linux. Linus Torvalds has said that if 386BSD had been available at > the time, he probably would not have created Linux.[see n.7]" > http://gondwanaland.com/meta/history/interview.html > Sincerely, > RJack :) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
