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eWeek: Sun Visualizes World Domination

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Sean Gallagher
Nov 18, 2004

“A few years back at the very first LinuxWorld conference in San
Jose–back when they could fit LinuxWorld in the San Jose
Convention Center, and girls in BSD Unix red devil costumes
attempted to lure top-hatted Linux kernel hackers into
temptation–Linus Torvalds joked about his goal for Linux being
‘total world domination.’

“It was funny because, well, it was partially true. Linux
proceeded to eat the lunch of all of the established Unix vendors
over the next few years, and made Microsoft ever so queasy…”


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