Re: Re: Viability of Linux companies

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

On 21/04/01 21:25 +0600, Devdas Bhagat spewed into the LI bitstream:

> On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Arun Sharma spewed into the ether:
 
> > BSD existed before GNU and Linux, thank you. Try again :)
> When did the BSD project start? RMS started the FSF in 1984 (according 
> to what I recall he said at last years Banglinux)
 
 BSD = Berkeley Systems Division.  Started right back when AT&T Bell Labs
 released the unix source code to University of California, Berkeley, and Bill
 Joy developed stuff like vi, the c shell, & to push processes into the
 background, etc etc.  This was Berkeley Unix - and Bill Joy took his
 experience across to Sun Microsystems.
 
 So yeah, BSD predates the FSF by quite a bit.  Dont exactly know about the
 *bsd project and the BSD license though :)

 	-s

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