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Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:22:47 +0100
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>>Yes. That's right. Whole story (from Linus's point of view) is in
>>Linus's Just for Fun book. Really Linux was just a terminal emulator for

so you're saying it wasn't really `Just for Fun' but `Just for That!'.
and thus in a way, it was the flipside version of the opposing system's success:
the weather was good and some chap decides to go flying that day,
and IBM, kept waiting, decides: just for that he can go fly a kite, and they'll allow that
sprat Gates to provide them with a poxy little program loader.