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From: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com>
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Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are,           but the title fits]...
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Paul Richards wrote:
inux had no networking.
> 
> I think the main reason Linux picked up so quickly was it grew up in a
> different environment. It developed from the Minix crowd and DOS users
> who wanted to try Unix, which was always a much bigger audience,
> whereas 386BSD grew up in the BSD community which was a much tighter
> nit group of people who weren't to evangelical about this wonderful
> new system called unix since it wasn't new to them.


Paul:

I wrote and remember that NET/2 BSD was attached by USL/NOVELL at this
very time when they sued BSDI.  I think this REALLY prompted the Linux
movement because NET/2 had been released for a short period and there
was a taste for free unix.  Torvalds fed this market with his idea for a
free independent Unix (and some help with his homework, no doubt).

But I think BSD COULDN'T take off, not Didn't...

-Mike