Comment Re:Kudos to him! (Score 3, Insightful) 757
"I see no freely licensed BSD systems before 1993."
That's because of the legal issues with AT&T. Linus has been quoted as saying that if BSD UNIX had been available at the time, he probably wouldn't have written Linux.
So one could argue that the existence of Linux owes more to AT&T than just the creation of UNIX.