17 Jan
2020
17 Jan
'20
5:08 p.m.
On 17 Jan 2020, at 17:53, Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
The AT&T lawsuit (April 1992) post-dated Linus
starting on his work (eg 0.12 released January 1992). He said in an interview once he was
unaware that net/2 was out and could be leveraged to get a working system when he started.
It did give a big boost to Linux at a critical time due to the huge amount of FUD that it
created over BSD's future.
Well, that plainly removes the AT&T lawsuit argument from the answers list so the
remaining question I had about its origins is clearer.