[lizknope]

My feeling at the time was that BSD developers and many users were at least 30 years old or much older and had professional jobs and money.

The Linux community felt like college students with no job and not much money. That included Linus Torvalds himself who developed the kernel while in college and wasn't rich. DEC basically gave Linus an Alpha to get him to port the kernel to it.

[LeFantome]

Very true in the beginning.

Your prof loved BSD/386 while the students were rocking a shared server cobbled from a 386 the science department threw out.