On Jan 13, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Brad Parker wrote:
  I think 386bsd was the first unencumbered
"free" unix I saw.  I ran it
 on several of my laptops (did some serious BGP development sitting on
 the floor of my wife's grandmother's house :-) 
Yeah... then there was the really weird stuff with Bill. After the
first release, it all seemed to fall apart, and Linux kind of fell into
the hole it left behind.