> I don't think that's the case. You have other successful open source
> projects that aren't GNU or GPL like *BSD and Minix. Open source began in
> academic circles as a way to share good code both as a learning tool and
> as a useful product for colleges that didn't want to pay AT&T for
> commercial Unix. So if there wasn't a GNU/Linux, we would probably all
> use a BSD for our free Unix alternative.
I suspect that, if all Free OSs were BSDL or similar, a company like
Apple or IBM (or Sun!) would have created a proprietary version that
became popular to the near-exclusion of all others.
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