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Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us' by SoftTalker on Sunday March 12, 2023 @04:41PM (#35125994)
IBM, DEC, Sun, HP and others already had commercial Unix offerings with support that corporate users wanted for servers. Why unite behind Linux, which at the time was inferior to all those others?
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Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us' by mixmastamyk on Sunday March 12, 2023 @05:10PM (#35126337)
To attack Windows from the top and bottom simultaneously. It may seem excessive but MS was in a very strong position at the time. Many of us wondered if anything else would survive.
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