On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Michael Kerpan <madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com> wrote:

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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").