[Linux-aus] SCO suspends it's Linux distribution

[David Lloyd]

Jessica,

> I muse that it's strange all this fuss is happening over Linux and I
> never heard any complaints about any of the BSDs... but I may just be
> uninformed. :)

The BSD war happened years ago. AT&T decided that it would have a go at
the University of California, Berkeley Systems Division about use of
Unix (tm) [it was AT&T's at the time] code in the BSD kernel. Eventually
these two organisations settled this out of court, if I recall, and BSD
released two versions of BSD:

 * BSD Encumbered
   - you had to have a Unix (tm) licence

 * BSD Lite
   - BSD rewrote all the stuff they had to take out

I believe that this was around the time that an operating system called
MSDOS appeared. These wars only served to destroy the Unix (tm) market.

In my opinion, Unix (tm) is dying anyway ...


DSL
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