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He did by creating MINIX. His loss to Linux was not from an unwillingness to get his hands dirty and build something.
by slededit 8y ago
He did by creating MINIX. His loss to Linux was not from an unwillingness to get his hands dirty and build something.
- gowld 8y agoMINIX was an educational demo. He slapped on a restrictive license even though he didn't make money from it, because his ego didn't want other people to touch his baby. Then he never made time to build anything useful with it. Being right about something you aren't going to build is worse than being a little wrong about something you build.
- stock_toaster 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX_3 > Its use in the Intel ME makes it the most widely used OS on Intel processors starting as of 2015, with more installations than Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, or macOS. That's... not too shabby, if you ask me.