Re: Dream OS = Linux

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From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 03:03

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Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
: ... Without any kind of marketing forces behind it,
: Linux got pretty well spread ...

No "marketing forces"? Every expensive UNIX workstation vendor out there
is a "marketing force" pushing linux. Every university providing UNIX
systems to students is a "marketing force" pushing linux. Linux fell into
a vacuum and "got pretty well spread", no surprise there. 

UNIX is incredibly popular in the academic and scientific communities. 
But it was always out of reach to us at a personal level. Only our
companies or universities could afford the systems. We had to settle for
PCs or Macs (in recent history) as personal systems. There was a hunger to
have UNIX at home also, linux was the first to truly satisfy that hunger. 

If AT&T, Dec, or Sun had come out with a low-cost (<$100) UNIX
implementation for PCs then linux would not have enjoyed much popularity
at all. Very few people care about source code. There was a demand for
UNIX, linux was the first thing that showed up.

Tony
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Tony Tribelli
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