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35th Anniversary of Linus' announcement today! (thelemmy.club)

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 28 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

What an idiot. Linux became huge.

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[–] walden@wetshav.ing 15 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Total dolt!

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 point 51 minutes ago

🤔 there's a short and pregnant term that hasn't been used for Linux software yet

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[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago

I would say a git.

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[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

He didn't have any way of knowing at the time what Linux would become.

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[–] inari@piefed.zip 13 points 10 hours ago

Thatsthejoke.jpg

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

Someone smart enough to make Linux so huge should have been smart enough to know that.

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