It sounds like you're accusing the BSD systems of trying to soak up the credit for other people's work.
No, I was trying to address the issue "how would you interpret the fact of market success for BSD". I would attribute it, to some degree, to the success of Linux and I would point out that the market success (not it's existence, you are correct that BSD predated GNU/FSF) of BSD was only made possible by GPL'd software.
Because BSD _is_ open source software. Open Source != GPL.
You're right, I did conflate Open Source and GPL, as others have pointed out. My mistake.
Re:If the BSD's succeed (Score:1)
No, I was trying to address the issue "how would you interpret the fact of market success for BSD". I would attribute it, to some degree, to the success of Linux and I would point out that the market success (not it's existence, you are correct that BSD predated GNU/FSF) of BSD was only made possible by GPL'd software.
Because BSD _is_ open source software. Open Source != GPL.
You're right, I did conflate Open Source and GPL, as others have pointed out. My mistake.