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John Lasseter drew the BSD daemon logo
I'd say before the UNIX lawsuit[1] of April 1992, BSD was the natural choice for a UNIX derivative . This lawsuit delayed the release of 4.4BSD, and since Linux was from scratch, it had no cloud of legal uncertainty.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories%2C_In...
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a_vanderbilt
on Jan 18, 2024
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Imagine what the world would look like if BSD became the dominant OS instead of Linux.
geoelectric
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Well, we’d be rebuilding it a lot.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories%2C_In....