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by andrewzah 1938 days ago
Imagine reducing the impact of linux/git/etc to merely an operating system.
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ben0x539 1938 days ago
Don't you think we'd largely have palette-swapped jobs doing basically the same thing on some BSD derivative instead?
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andrewzah 1934 days ago
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.

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