A student posts a hobby operating system

Linus Torvalds announced Linux 'just a hobby, won't be big and professional'; combined with GNU and the open-source method, it became the world's infrastructure.

Why it matters

Open collaboration at internet scale proved it could out-engineer corporations. Linux runs most servers, phones and cloud platforms — including, almost certainly, every network this sentence travels through.

People

Linus Torvalds · Richard Stallman

Threads

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Sources

• The Linux Foundation — History