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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"
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Well, Well, is it true? Well, you can judge.
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You know most people end up spending a lot of their time
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becoming more productive so that
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they ever actually worked on their thesis
they'd finish it in a day.
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It takes a while sometimes.
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So I decided that I wanted a Unix machine at home.
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And I went out there I was able to
use Linux together with the PC.
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For about 2,000 dollars, I put together a system.
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That was one and a half to two times faster
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than that 7,000 dollars Sun Sparc Station.
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It was absolutely amazing.
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I had one and a half to two times the speed,
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at a third to fourth the price.
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Light bulbs went off.
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I knew there was an opportunity here.
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This was the chance to really do something
better than what Sun has done
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around Open Source and Linux.
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I called it Linux originally as working name.