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Why August 1999? Seems quite specific?
by arp242 1y ago
Why August 1999? Seems quite specific?
- alistairSH 1y agoRedHat's IPO. Seemed like as good a date as any to anchor "when Linux went mainstream". I'm sure there are other dates that are arguably at least as good here.
- arp242 1y agoAh right, that roughly tracks. Just wasn't obvious where "August 1999" came from. Kind of amazing timeline in hindsight by the way; Linux was "only" 8 years old at that point.