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In <adtDDqttF.1DL@netcom.com> adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) writes:

>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. 

A vacuum?  You must be kidding.  Minix, Coherent (a commercial Unix sold
for $99 including very good documentation) and 386BSD (the "parent" of
NetBSD and FreeBSD) were already in place when the Linux project was 
started.

And you seem to dismiss completely all those people whose _first_ contact
with Unix was Linux.  I guess Matt Welsh just wasted his time writing
"Linux Installation and Getting Started" for the Unix illiterate reader,
since every Linux user was already an experienced Unix user.  And 
probably nobody buys the commercial books about Linux which fill the
bookshelves of the bookshops.

Dan
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