On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Andrew C. Greenberg wrote:

While not a commercial alternative to the garbage referred to by the
elipsis, Linux has definitely got a following in the enterprise market,
and embedded market these days. And almost all university CS departments
use it.  Do you remember the days when computers were mainly found at
universities ? Well, Linux has saturated that market, which actually
correponds to the initial Un#x design goal.

And, frankly, people who use ... are like people who use C++. They get
what they ask for.

Edmund


> 
> On Monday, September 3, 2001, at 03:00  AM, Cees de Groot wrote:
> 
> > Otherwise, Linux would still be a Finnish CS student's spare time hack 
> > (after
> > all, it was not *aimed* at being a commercial alternative to ...).
> 
> Are you suggesting that it is a "commercial alternative to" the 
> elipsis?  Perhaps in the arena of servers (although FreeBSD seems a far 
> better device for that), but where, exactly are we seeing alternative 
> uses?
>