Orn E. Hansen wrote:
This battle started, the very day M$ screwed up IBM, and they've been fighting to bury Unix ever since even by "taking" code from it, as well Linux code. And as I stated earlier, the biggest idiocy the Linux community ever did, was to embrace "Linux" instead of BSD, which they should have. As the Linux code has a very questionable "Xenix" origin, which is basically a MicroSoft/SCO original product.
Excuse me? Linux was written from scratch. It had no connection to Xenix. Torvalds had no access to Xenix source code. You can track Linux's history from the consistent releases and patches posted directly to the internet. By going through the archive, you can literally watch how Linux was written. Moreover, Torvalds used Minix to compile the early builds of Linux, so you can't even take that angle... As to Linux instead of BSD, the license is a crucial difference. Anyone can steal BSD code. By forcing companies to put their own additions to Linux back into the pool, it vastly accelerated Linux development. Otherwise, no company would bother putting their work back into the community. Torvalds was also far more open and straightforward in dealing with people than BSD's developers, who tended to be rather insular, as most projects of the time were.