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Pretty sure Linus never realised his toy operating system would turn into a 30 year project/career. (I suspect RMS probably suspected the timeframe for GNU, at
by bigiain 6y ago
Pretty sure Linus never realised his toy operating system would turn into a 30 year project/career.
(I suspect RMS probably suspected the timeframe for GNU, at least for the collection of system utilities rather than the kernel, was going to be a multi decade piece of work.)
- relaxing 6y agoLinus was already doing a master’s thesis (like the OP.) He knew Linux wasn’t a weekend project, and he knew the orders of magnitude invoked in creating a commercial OS. No one can predict the longevity of a project, but that’s not the point.
- seba_dos1 6y agoHobby projects can be pretty much the same scale as master's thesis, especially for young people.
- bigiain 6y agoI would bet good money that if you told Linus in late 1991 that he’d spend his entire career working on his “side project” and that it would be the major OS powering many billion and even trillion dollar new tech companies, and running on several billion battery powered and wireless networked pocket supercomputers in 2021 - and that he’d be some sort of software industry messiah - he’d have laughed at you (and probably viciously evicerated you on a public mailing list for your stupidity, like he is wont to do...)