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sgjohnsonyesterday at 6:42 PM1 replyview on HN

The next sentence is also interesting actually.

> It’s a closed-source proprietary operating system

Most UNIX systems were proprietary & closed source though?


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MisterTeayesterday at 7:34 PM

All of the commercial Unix operating systems were closed source.

The first open Unix-like is 386BSD which predates Linux. It was said that if 386BSD didn't get mired in a lawsuit, Torvalds would have used it and Linux would not exist.

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