From:	Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: "Free" Software (was: Euro question)
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 17:23:47 +0100

And verily, did Brett Borger hastily scribble thusly...
|This assumes they hear of it. While normally corps R&D depts and
|Intel depts are supposed to be well-informed, they spend their time
|and money looking at each other. Something the developed as Linux
|did wouldn't have promise at first, except in the eyes of the
|original developer (I'm seeing Linus as decker with a penguin icon
|:)) One or two revisions by the devloper and a few others interested
|in the challenge or the possibility, and suddenly it's chock full of
|potential and performance. So you pass budding. On to the next
|stage...

i just heard something recently about linus that i find quite....
enlightening....

Guess what the computer was that got him interested in operating systems....

Go on.... You'll never guess....
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