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If the users had rejected it, I would have had a perfect excuse. I could have said "I offered them freedom and they rejected it; it's their fault." But I wanted to make more than just an excuse. I wanted to build a community where people would actually live in freedom, which meant I had to develop a system people would actually use. So I decided to make the system upward-compatible with UNIX.