RE: Re: Viability of Linux companies

["Arun Sharma" <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Still in the mood for some more ? How about originality ? BSD
> is where vi
> > happened, TCP/IP happened.
>
> 	Acting like a Kid ;)

<ignore>

>
> 	It came to masses only after GNU/Linux. I know people
> who went to GNU/Linux since *BSD was not affordable for them
> (ie before BSD became free).
>

As I said, it's probably more of BSD didn't play nicely along
with Windows. Linux did. It didn't support common PC hardware,
Linux did. Try reading Usenet archives from around 95.

Talking of Usenet, people who have an interest in researching more
on this topic, here are some pointers:

* John Dyson Vs GPL folks, including Linus around 98 I think

on comp.os.linux.advocacy and cross posted to a 1000 other groups.
Linus eventually tells John to shut up and stop talking about
other people's licenses.

* Jeremy Allison Vs other folks on de-GPL'ing Samba
* Archives of gnu.misc.discuss
* Archives of freebsd-chat
* Occassional flames on linux-kernel

Get lots of pop-corn and read on.

Another interesting thing to think about:

- 91 Linus releases Linux with a license that doesn't even allow cheapbytes
  to make money selling CDs
- (92 ?) Linus releases Linux 1.0 with GPL
- (98 ?) Linus allows binary only modules
- (98) Linus joins Transmeta, a company with significant intellectual
properties
- Average age of a FreeBSD user is probably greater than a Linux user
- Many kernel hackers are subscribed to both linux-kernel and
freebsd-hackers

	-Arun

PS: Not all of the above may be available right away, at least not until
google manages to bring Deja archive back online.