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intsunny
At 06:30 in the video: "No one knew at that point how the Unix wars would shake out -- Spoiler alert, BSD ended up winning"

BSD won the Unix wars? what?

There were no winners. Unix remained fragmented and Microsoft stepped up.

jiveturkey
Are there any commercial Unices left? No => BSD won.
zylent
IBM is still making and selling AIX, it’s pretty popular in manufacturing environments.
ncmncm
I have heard of people running Macosix...
chungus_khan
I would interpret it more as a sort of dialectical relationship. The two ultimately ended up adopting a lot of each other, and modern UNIX and UNIX-like systems tend to contain a synthesis of features and ideas from both camps. Most of them mix use of /usr/bin & /usr/sbin with /bin, most have adopted init systems similar to Solaris's SMF over either SysV or BSD style init, etc. I think this has especially been the case post-fragmentation: with no central authority the best of both worlds can rise to the top more easily.
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