[TUHS] On the origins of Linux - "an academic question"

[Arrigo Triulzi]

On 17 Jan 2020, at 17:53, Warner Losh <imp at 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.