[forkerenok]

I haven't read the book, but the quotes do really read as timeless.

I was in my early teens during dot-com era, but without a PC yet and still an "internet virgin".

One question that really tickles my curiosity is how much the spoils of the dot-com era shaped the direction of the free software in the next decade?

When looking at (the aged) projects under Apache umbrella, it seems a lot of them kicked off around that time. Is that because of the dot-com money or because Java graduated to a different stage around that time?

[quickthrower2]

I don’t know but I assume GNU/Linux and the need to complete the OS user space would have driven a wave if such free software.