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That would be an interesting timeline where open source BSD variants have all the hardware support and mindshare while Linux is an obscure project in the vein of Plan 9 or GNU Hurd..no idea how that would have played out.
Heh, in theory on our end it wouldn't be... That different? I don't expect the licensing for the BSD variants would have changed the outcomes all that much, the BSD licenses are more libre than the GPL even. The bigger issue might be support fragmentation among the different flavours (distros?) of BSD, unless one BSD version came out on top.
It'd be a weird world without Linux, but still having the Unix wars happen. I guess it's possible System V would still play a bigger role in that timeline too.