23 Feb
2017
23 Feb
'17
4:18 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Michael Kerpan <madcrow.maxwell(a)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").