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> There was a lot of BSD in the core of every proprietary Unix, each tied to a given manufacturer

Except MacOS X, the major proprietary Unixes all predated permissively-licensed releases of BSD, and the early permissively licensed releases were under a copyright cloud for years that prevented anyone from relying on them for commercial downstream distributions.



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