386BSD Polls
Who really did "the first open source operating system"* ?
Andy Tenenbaum with Minix for university students (1980's).
15%
Linus Torvalds with Linux for hackers (1991).
14%
Bill Joy with BSD because it had "built-in TCP" (1982).
13%
Dennis Richie for Bell Labs because it's all "just Unix" (1970's).
14%
William Jolitz with 386BSD for Dr. Dobbs Journal (1989).
14%
John Lion's (dec.) book on Version 6 Unix (suppressed until 1998).
12%
Butler Lampson with BTSS at Berkeley (1960's).
15%
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