Groklaw: The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin–Ch. 20

“From the early 1980s on, the big gripe about Unix was that it
had split and resplit, that there were just too many variants. The
fact that they had a common base was irrelevant to the critics–and
many (if not most) of those critics were selling VMS or MVS or DOS
or…

“Following Linus’ postings of 1991, there soon were what we have
come to call ‘distributions.’ And, rather than utilizing ftp, they
came on CD-ROM…”

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