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The case of the unwelcome attribution

The case of the unwelcome attribution

Posted Sep 20, 2007 4:20 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (guest, #2599)
In reply to: The case of the unwelcome attribution by JoeBuck
Parent article: The case of the unwelcome attribution

This goes right back to the founding days, with the fights over 386bsd and BSDI.

Heh...for some of us, the "founding days" would be considered to have happened more than a decade earlier than that. ;-)

Greg


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The case of the unwelcome attribution

Posted Sep 21, 2007 6:33 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Of course I'm aware of how old BSD is, since I had a summer job in a lab that was running 4.1BSD on a Vax before the transition to TCP/IP. Yes, I'm an old fart, I used the Internet when it was only one day old (the Arpanet and connected networks became the Internet once it switched protocols on Jan 1, 1982).

I was talking about the founding days of completely free BSD; the Jolitzes did the first completely free BSD and BSDI did the first supposed USL-free but proprietary BSD.

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