Re: Linux shareware?

Drew Eckhardt (drew@poohsticks.org)
Thu, 07 Mar 1996 12:26:39 -0700

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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