In a message to Steven Thompson, Jack Stein wrote re: It's over. Period.

JS> You heard of LINUX right?  AT&T owned that, lock stock and barrel, yet,
Linus
JS> managed to clone the damn thing, didn't he?

Not quite... Bell Laboratories created Unix, but the marketing 
droids at the time didn't think there was any reason to try and 
sell it, so it was given away to universities to play with. 
After a few years in that environment, it became apparent to even
the marketing droids that Unix was worth something and they began
selling commercial licenses.  But it didn't run on PC hardware.

Torvalds wanted a free, Unix-like operating system for his PC.
Minix was all there was at the time and he decided he would write
his own kernel and the rest is history.  

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