• vu2tum@lemmy.radio
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    4 months ago

    “Just a hobby, won’t be big” - he really didn’t think it will be one of the most sought after projects.

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    4 months ago

    Just look at those nested parentheses. A true sign of (pedantic) greatness, when a person needs to clarify something in their earlier clarification.

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    4 months ago

    (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu)

    Aged like fine milk. Looking at you, GNU Hurd.

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    4 months ago

    Funny how he made it basically for his desktop computer.

    33 years later, and Linux is dominating in every part of the OS world except … the desktop.

    (I’m paraphrasing his quote – he said something like this years ago, can’t find it, though.)

    (Edit: to be more fair with quotes, it might be the case that I “hallucinated” the quote. he might not have said that, or he might have just said part of it and other part would be someone else’s comment. This cio.com article is probably a better source on his position )