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Christopher Neugebauer

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The fact that those complications were overcome (eventually) suggests that with the right early adoption and contribution patterns they could have been overcome (expediently), but _something_ got in the way of people wanting to contribute 🤔
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3 April at 22:19 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.coop
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mcc

@chrisjrn @glyph Well, the "complications" I'm referring to were the lawsuit, and the extremely awkward "advertising" clause in the BSD license that was not removed until 1999. Those things were just going to happen over a certain time period either way (you could maybe even argue without Linux blowing up the advertising clause might have stayed in BSD longer…)

3 April at 22:25 | Open on mastodon.social
Christopher Neugebauer replied to mcc

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Fair assessment. Certainly those affected community BSD forks, but I find myself wondering how that threat would have impacted IBM (who were distributing BSD-compatible AIX and still contributing to Linux at the same time).
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3 April at 22:36 | Open on social.coop
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