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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by bluGill on Monday April 13, 2020 @04:18AM (#22854042)
The license has nothing to do with that. GPL2 doesn't require industry to contribute back either. I decline to speculate on why industry adopts Linux.
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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by kls on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:42AM (#22854933)
A bit of it had to do with the SCO lawsuits, it had a freezing effect on BSD and it's adoption numbers dropped way behind Linux after that and never really recovered.
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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by nichohel on Monday April 13, 2020 @11:58AM (#22856950)
The SCO lawsuit targeted Linux vendors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes

Earlier a USL (Unix System Lab) lawsuit went after some BSD stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.....

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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by wbl on Monday April 13, 2020 @10:20AM (#22856050)
That wasn't SCO. It was an earlier set of lawsuits by AT&T because 4.4 BSD had evolved from AT&T unix.
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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by kls on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:32PM (#22859185)
Your right, It's been a while and I got the two mixed up. Funny how time can play tricks on memory. It was the AT&T lawsuit. SCO was Linux. Sorry for the misinformation. IIRC Linux had come out a few years before the BSD lawsuit, but I do recall a time when they where neck and neck and BSD started dealing with the legal issues and it just seemed like Linux keep on gaining traction after that.
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