Two Guys Software Foundation Epilog
Two Guys Software Foundation was an idea Greg Hankins and I made real while working at Mindspring. We wanted to give something back to the UNIX software community. With donations from Mindspring, Network Appliance, Compaq, TotalTec and Foundry, we built a 150GB UNIX open source software archive site. It was a unique time in history when geeks could consume a DS3 simply because they had a cool idea. Times changed and ISPs became commodities. Little companies that had once rocked the business world with radical ideas became boring corporations.
After five years of mind numbingly stressful life, I needed a change. Mindspring had about eight thousand customers when I started. The new Earthlink had over three million customers when I left after the merger. The new management had no interest in supporting an expensive experiment of two former employees. They pulled the plug and the Two Guys Software Foundation Archive faded into history.
