[paulmd]

> Reminder that Linus is part of the reason you and I have a job in the first place.

yikes, operating systems existed before linus.

[andrewzah]

Imagine reducing the impact of linux/git/etc to merely an operating system.

[ben0x539]

Don't you think we'd largely have palette-swapped jobs doing basically the same thing on some BSD derivative instead?

[andrewzah]

Maybe, maybe not. There are infinite hypothetical realities, so I do not find it productive to muse on them.

The reality is such that Linus wrote Linux, people adopted it, and here we are.