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And according to all the rules I knew...
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about controlling complexity,
keeping a project group small,
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having closely managed objectives.
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Linux should have been a disaster, and it wasn't.
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Instead, it was something wonderful,
:38:20
and I was determined to figure out
how they were getting a way with that.
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In order for Linux to grow beyond
the world of the computer programmer
:38:31
It needed a use, an application
that made it a must-have technology
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That threshold was crossed
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with the development of a program
that made complex websites possible
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That program is the Apache web server.
:38:47
The killer app of Linux was undoubtedly
the Apache web server.
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If you look at the history of Linux,
:38:54
the adoption curve of Linux and
the adoption curve of the Internet
:38:59
exactly track each other.
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1993, which was when the Apache
web server project really got started,
:39:07
was also the beginnings of the popular ISP explosion
:39:11
when the Internet first became a mass market commodity
:39:16
and the idea of web-based electronic commerce
:39:19
and, and mass communication became real.
:39:22
I think it was one of the first applications
that caused people to go
:39:26
"Well, if I install Linux."
:39:28
I get some tangible benefit from doing so, right?
:39:33
I mean, clearly there were a lot of
interesting applications on Linux
:39:36
at, at the time, this being maybe
two or three years ago,
:39:39
when the root thing really started to take off
:39:41
but there wasn't a driving, you know,
:39:44
you could almost say business case
:39:46
for someone to use Linux versus using NT
:39:49
until, I think, Apache and
a lot of the things that plugged into Apache
:39:53
enhanced Apache
:39:55
I mean, when you want to go out and build..
go out to build a server farm
:39:59
It was much more cost effective