logoalt Hacker News

hungryhobbityesterday at 11:38 PM1 replyview on HN

Actually, that's exactly how it started: read Linus Torvalds' "Just for Fun".


Replies

paxysyesterday at 11:45 PM

Was Linux owned by a large company? Was the maintainer getting paychecks from that company? Was it profit motivated? Was it released as an AI experiment?

If the similarity is "they are both open source projects" then so are about a million others. 99.99% of them don't get any traction beyond the first week.

show 1 reply