>The Linux kernel was the most important open-source project in history That i think is unfair, it's the most prominent, but i would argue that GNU especially

>The Linux kernel was the most important open-source project in history That i think is unfair, it's the most prominent, but i would argue that GNU especially GCC was more important. However the way Linus split the work and with that idea used Bitkeeper and then later created Git was revolutionary. Some opensource kernel's already existed at that time, for example Mach and BSD (to name a micro and monolith). EDIT: But yeah we all know why BSD was legally problematic around the 90's.