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Interactive Week: 1998: A Who’d-A-Thunk-It Year

“The chief threat?

A piece of free software called Linux, whose progenitor, Linus
Torvalds, carries almost a cult-leader status among the Net’s True
Believers. But the noise factor largely outweighs the sales factor;
Linux-related booths barely filled a dozen booths at Fall Comdex,
still the mother of all trade shows of any type.”

“But anything can happen”


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