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Re:Linus Torvalds for Nobel Peace Prize? by prodigal_erik on Saturday November 21, 2009 @05:31PM (#955035)
I do assume that. Linux rapidly caught up with the BSDs despite their huge head start, which demonstrates the industry does have a critical mass of developers who are willing to contribute their work rather than go through the pain of tivoization or building from scratch.
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Re:Linus Torvalds for Nobel Peace Prize? by holdenk on Sunday December 20, 2009 @05:17PM (#1006685)
So, its my understanding, that this wasn't do the GPL versus the BSD license, but had more to do with the uncertainty hanging over the BSD distributions due to a lawsuit threat from proprietary Unix.

Now of course I could be wrong, but I think there may be other factors which could explain the difference.

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