How the Linux-vs-BSD culture clash looked in the 1980s/1990s

(Repurposed HN comment. ) The BSD/Linux thing was there right from the start, but it was more complicated than a simple us-vs-them. The thing is that there were a whole bunch of competing commercial Unix-like OSes in the 1980s. But there were other prejudices as well. In Proper Grown-Up Unix terms, PCs were toys, poorly-made weird little things that were no more than office equipment. So nothing…