<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:small;display:inline"></div><font face="courier new, monospace">Totally disagree with Steve on this one.</font><div><font face="courier new, monospace">In 96-97 I set up an ISP, and bsdi was one of the top choices.</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">It was about 1000$ from what I remember, and cheaper for</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">a workstation, and cheaper in bulk buys</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">(digiboard drivers wo<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:small;display:inline">rked</div> well on it, over linux at the time as well).</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">In tech support, a few times I called up, I actually talked to to the likes of Kolstad<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:small;display:inline">, etc, so it was a </div></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:small;display:inline">small shop at the time, and prices would have dropped if sales were very high volume.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:small;display:inline"> (i was cust ~#2000 ish)</div></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">If Linux didn't come along, BSDI and other player would have had to drop prices, and if Linux didn't come in, another would have, i.e. RMS and herd , etc.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:small;display:inline"> Who is to say in a few years even BSDi could have done "free",</div></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:small;display:inline">with a nice gig for paid support, etc.</div></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">So at best Linux bought us a year (Still a great thing that is!), but not anything like the what the article says. If Linux never saw the light of day, the internet would be exactly as it is today, maybe Android would be a bit different :) but the internet would be the same.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:small;display:inline"> </div></font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;display:inline"></div><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"></span></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> </font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Am I biased!! used Linux/GNU/X for over a decade as my main desktop,<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:small;display:inline"> servers for 15+ years</div> etc, but I am also a realist<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:small;display:inline">, </div></font><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">steve is smoking crack on this one<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:small;display:inline"> big time.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:small;display:inline"></div></span></div><div><br>-tl<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:01 PM, James Knott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.knott@rogers.com" target="_blank">james.knott@rogers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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