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by makecheck 5358 days ago
Unfortunate that they give Linus Torvalds so much praise for "reinventing Unix" with Linux. It was at least substantially, if not equally, made possible by projects such as GNU. Clearly the kernel was a huge and necessary part, but it was just that: a part.
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It was also made possible by cheap ubiquitous i386 PCs - so it was really all due to the Microsoft monopoly