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On this day in 1991, Linus Torvalds announced he was working on what would become Linux (www.xda-developers.com)

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Wasn't Linus an actual asshole back in the day. The same as Steve Jobs and even Bill Gates. Seems to be a running trend with OS makers from the early 90's.

https://itsfoss.com/torvalds-takes-a-break-from-linux/

Not that it is relevant. It's cool we have Linux. Glad we can celebrate a system that just isn't quite there yet.