When Bill Gates first heard about Linux

Posted by tadelste on Sep 20, 2005 8:55 AM EDT
HELSINGIN SANOMAT; By HELSINGIN SANOMAT
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Along with countless other super-nerds around the world, this young computer science student at the University of Helsinki had been working on a most excellent new operating system. It had been dubbed Linux (after Linus's Minix, as it was based on the Minix operating system, itself a spin-off from the Unix OS that sought to provide a stable UNIX platform for PCs). By the latter half of 1994, Linux had hundreds of thousands of users around the world, and - even better - it was absolutely free.

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