• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    It’s also wrong for St Linus. He was a college student trying a project for fun when he started. Part of what makes Linux great is that it isn’t something made from the ground up to change the world or to be its founder’s career. It was an interesting project that was so useful it wound up being adopted and evolving into what it is

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      He was visionary for knowing that he couldn’t do it all alone but instead of making a company he open sourced his project.