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adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) wrote:
>Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
>: 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.
etc...

Can we just assume that Dan ment "Commercial Marketing forces attempting
to sell Linux," and move on?

Sure there are forces marketing Linux.  Isn't that what
comp.os.linux.advocacy is all about?  Now we even have those
commercial marketing forces, and we should be proud.

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