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Re:Farmers are hacking their tractors because of a repair ba... by zrail on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @09:37AM (#22484073)
BSD didn’t need legislation but it did need a long legal process to resolve in its favor.
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Re:Farmers are hacking their tractors because of a repair ba... by magduf on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @10:42AM (#22484660)
I think there's even a theory that one of the reasons BSD is a small niche OS and Linux powers the world is because BSD was tied up in litigation for a while.
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Re:Farmers are hacking their tractors because of a repair ba... by kls on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @05:18PM (#22488763)
I don't know if it's a theory as so much as it actually happened. I remember the SCO lawsuits and it scared a lot of people away from BSD, the user base was a decent portion on free *nix at the time and it was virtually overnight Linux became the uncontested dominate force when that happened. SCO had a huge chilling effect on BSD which was it's intention all along.
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Re:Farmers are hacking their tractors because of a repair ba... by anoncake on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @07:30PM (#22489763)
Unless you have proof (not just evidence) it remains q theory.
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