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Not to take anything away from Linus, but Linux was also in the right place at the right time. The BSD licensing issues were up in the air at the time and Micro
by blippage 4y ago
Not to take anything away from Linus, but Linux was also in the right place at the right time. The BSD licensing issues were up in the air at the time and Microsoft had Windows 3.11, which was hardly a technological tour de force. There was a gap that was ripe for exploitation. It could have been Minix that won, or BSD, or the Hurd, but it wasn't, due to various missteps.
There's a lot of stuff out there that's good, but didn't make it for "various reasons". Time and chance happen to all men, as it says in the Good Book.