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I suspect that if Linus had tried to actively contribute to BSD he might have gotten fed up and done his own thing anyway.

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I think Linus would have forked it and made LinBSD and more people would have joined his effort. The Linux community was a lot more friendly and helpful to me than the BSD crowd in the mid 90's

The bsd community is still ups and downs today.

Not all the bsd communities are equally friendly.

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