Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 06, 2005 07:52 PM
Actually, that isn't correct.
The concept of releasing source code has roots back *before* BSD Unix, because in those days that was the way software was shared. The PC revolution and shrink-wrapped software changed that.
As for FreeBSD being older than any Linux distribution, that also is wrong. The linux kernel was initially released in Oct. 1991. FreeBSD forked from the stalled 386BSD project in Dec. 1993. (NetBSD is actually the oldest of the currently developed Free BSD systems.)
Also, at the time the Linux kernel was being started, the BSD code was still encumbered and there was an ongoing lawsuit to determine it's status. Eventually 4.4BSD Lite 1 (and later Lite 2) was released that was considered "Free".
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Re:Open source = Linux kernel????
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 06, 2005 07:52 PMThe concept of releasing source code has roots back *before* BSD Unix, because in those days that was the way software was shared. The PC revolution and shrink-wrapped software changed that.
As for FreeBSD being older than any Linux distribution, that also is wrong. The linux kernel was initially released in Oct. 1991. FreeBSD forked from the stalled 386BSD project in Dec. 1993. (NetBSD is actually the oldest of the currently developed Free BSD systems.)
Also, at the time the Linux kernel was being started, the BSD code was still encumbered and there was an ongoing lawsuit to determine it's status. Eventually 4.4BSD Lite 1 (and later Lite 2) was released that was considered "Free".
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