Early Linux making inroads
An interesting anecdote shared by Theodore Ts'o on The Unix Heritage Society mailing list:
Around 1994, MIT purchased a site license for a proprietary spreadsheet program for SCO
I told him that we were purchasing it intended to run it on Linux. He told me that this would be perfectly fine, because he had compiled the iBCS binary on Linux.
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