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by justin66 1616 days ago
> Mental game: If they had managed to quickly push the whole thing out as what is now called open source, while Unix was still proprietary, how would the world look now?

An AT&T that was willing to do that would have been willing to let BSDI slide. Linux would have died in the crib and we'd all be using BSD right now.