> When linux was first released, I remember people being surprised that GNU 
> (which was still claiming to be working on at least two kernels) had 
> *competition*.  I also remember when the core linux hackers thought that 
> 386BSD was going to `win' (in the end-days of ``all the world's a VAX'', that 
> must have seemed comforting), and that they really only needed to survive 
> long enough for that to happen.  Computing history is a funny place.

That should have been ``some of the core linux hackers'', of course.  Mea culpa.

*Chad


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