[jorgecastillo]

>It is unlikely that the Berkeley people would've pushed for a completely free (software) kernel without the Stallman influence:

<sarcasm>And no one else would of ever gotten to the task of creating a BSD/MIT licensed kernel since everyone would of thought "if Berkeley people didn't do it why should we?".<sarcasm>

[microtonal]

Or maybe what seems normal to us know, did not seem so normal in the days? I am to young to have witnessed the UNIX industry in the '80ies.