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and done by other people like Linux.
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And there's a symbiosis between
Linux and the programs
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that the programs run on Linux and at the same time
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and they take the advantage of Linux as a platform,
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while Linux takes the advantage of the programs
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by just being able to use them.
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[ What...What programs? ]
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umm...
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The main one is actually the GNU C Compiler.
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Which... Without a C compiler
it would not have been possible
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to make Linux or most of the open progress available.
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Linux uses the GPL,
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and I agree with a kind of philosophy behind the GPL.
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That said the GPL itself is not a very pretty document
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which is probably just because
no lawyerese can ever be very pretty.
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I'd been playing around with Linux for actually
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late '92 or early '93 for about a year.
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before I decided that it was to the point
where actually had everything that I needed
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to really replace a Sun Workstation.
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And I was looking for a way to
have a Unix workstation at home
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at the time we used Sun Sparc Stations
in the office at Stanford.
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Those machines cost us about 7,000 dollars.
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Now I desperately wanted a Unix machine at home!
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There's always a this thought
you get as a graduate student
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"Gee... if I could work at home!
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Then I would be so much more productive,
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I would graduate sooner because
I would finish my thesis sooner"