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"Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires."
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"Every invention began as an imagination."

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"If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them."

"For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet."

"Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types."

"The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers."

"In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe."

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"Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet."
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