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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.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories%2C_In....



Imagine what the world would look like if BSD became the dominant OS instead of Linux.


Well, we’d be rebuilding it a lot.




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