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20 years ago today: The First Linux Announcement from Linus Torvalds
- yaks_hairbrush 15y agoInteresting how Linus thought so poorly about portability prospects. Turns out in spite of a "bad" (from the perspective of porting) initial design, it was still in far better shape than HURD or BSD. Another story whose moral is basically "artists ship."
- RyanMcGreal 15y agoAlternate moral: Gall's Law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%27s_law