His references where mainly to *BSD and Bell Labs UNIX. In 1998 the open source ecosystem was something everyone was looking at from artisans to engineers. Also

His references where mainly to *BSD and Bell Labs UNIX. In 1998 the open source ecosystem was something everyone was looking at from artisans to engineers. Also the landscape was different as we where all inside an economic bubble at the time whereas the article explores the discontent of administering Microsoft products over working with the shell and posix system utilities.