Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

[geoffrey mendelson]

On 7/7/2014 11:57 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> There wasn't that much good BSD code out there when the GNU project 
> started. BSD started provided a complete system at the beginning of 
> the 1990-s. And shortly thereafter it got into a trial with AT&T. Also 
> shortly after development was halted and much of it moved to 
> proprietary forks. By then the basic system for Linux to use (sans 
> kernel) was GNU. 

All I know is that in 1990 I bought an AT&T UNIX system which included 
the AT&T KERNEL, a lot of closed source software and a lot of open 
source BSD utilities. There was lots of open source programs for UNIX, 
many of them were public domain (similar to the BSD license). It did 
have X windows on it, but with my 2 meg of RAM 386SX, it would not run.

By 1995, I was purchasing CD ROMs, with BSD (scrubbed after the 
lawsuit), which came with a large library of UNIX code, and LINUX 
distros (more than one), which came with the BSD libraries.

GCC did not come into general use (or at all AFAIK) until SUN started 
selling Solaris, because SUNOS required you to compile and link modules 
to change KERNEL parameters, so it came with a C compiler and linker.

System 5 UNIX did not, you had to have a linker, but not a compiler, so 
the C compiler was not included and cost a lot of money. GCC was 
popularized so that people could compile things on their SUNS without 
spending a lot of money for a compiler.

So from my point of view, based on the early 1990's BSD was it, not 
Linux, and the GPL was not really important then. You could happily run 
an open source BSD system without any GPL'ed code, and except for the 
Linux KERNEL. happily run a Linux system without any.  Not counting all 
of those SUN computers that had come one the surplus market when they 
went to SPARC and then went to the pizzabox systems.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel.