On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 11:45:25 +0100
The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> Linux, designed to break patents on Unix, is massively successful but
> its now becoming another standards war itself.

 AFAIK there were no patents on Unix, there were however copyright
restrictions on the AT&T source code which Linux avoided by the simple (in
principle) expedient of being a clean rewrite while BSD got embroiled in a
legal argument over which bits they could distribute and which bits they
could not.

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