Thanks to Leo Comitale for
this link.
“It seems as if Linux just leaped from obscurity to become one
of the promising — and popular — Internet technologies. But how
did the operating system manage to gather such force?”
“It is, after all, just another version of Unix. Its predecessor
Unixes aimed at small servers and desktops, such as the Santa Cruz
Operation’s OpenDesktop and Sun Microsystems’ Solaris on Intel,
flopped miserably. And the BSD Unixes, which were the first free
operating systems (OSes) available, managed to attain only a modest
user base after being around for years.”
“So why is Linux attracting a mass following?”