Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux shareware? | Date | Thu, 07 Mar 1996 12:26:39 -0700 | From | Drew Eckhardt <> |
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In message <199602291512.JAA14160@lcjones.aclib.siue.edu>, labash@lcjones.aclib .siue.edu writes: > >In the Jan/Feb 1996 issue of Computers in Physics's Editorial >"Linux Makes waves" by Lewis M. Holmes, the following was stated: > > "Two articles in the present issue discuss Linux, a new flavor of >Unix that has been gaining rapidly in popularity. The shareware >started out as the hobby of Linux Torvalds when he was a graduate >student at the University of Helsinki(see p. 17)." > >It is my understanding that Linux is *not* shareware. If an official >response (correction) will be made, I can provide the full text ... >of this Editorial.
1. Linux is not shareware.
2. At the time, Linus was still an undergrad.
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