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From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:18:02 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Why Linux not another PC/UNIX [was Mach for i386 ...]
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Michael Kerpan <madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ​...
>  Linux was the cheapest game in town: free on CDs from the back of books
> in the public library.
>
​Yup...  and the point is ended up in the legal troubles, I believe what
you would have seen in​ library would have been based on some flavor of BSD
because the BSD unix was much farther along/more mature/stable than Linux
at the time.

As Larry said -- people just wanted some "free" (I said "cheap enough").
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