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List:       freebsd-advocacy
Subject:    Re: FreeBSD mention on Charlie Rose program
From:       Greg Lehey <grog () lemis ! com>
Date:       2000-01-09 8:49:03
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On Saturday,  8 January 2000 at 13:20:12 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:44:16AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
>>>> Charlie Rose asked him a leading question about "Linux Torvalds
>>>> has stated that if he'd known about FreeBSD, he'd never have
>>>> created Linux; what's your reaction to that?".
>>>
>>> When did Linus state that?
>>
>> Presumably, before Charlie Rose quoted him.
>>
>
> IIRC, what Linus actually said was, "If FreeBSD had appeared 2 years
> earlier, then Linux would never have happened". 

This is closer to what I recall.

> Doesn't Linux pre-date FreeBSD?

Yes.  This statement might have done, too.  I think he was referring
to freely available BSD in general.

Greg
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