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loup-vaillanttoday at 10:46 AM0 repliesview on HN

> As simple as that, not everyone of us is a Linus.

I’m pretty sure Linus could not have written Linux today. Too much hardware to support, too many drivers to write, before it’s remotely useful. Well, except perhaps on some specialised servers.

Yes, not everyone is Linus. Otherwise we’d be using GNU Hurd. But he also came at the right time.