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Who Wrote Linux?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the every-universe-needs-a-creation-myth dept.

Dozix007 writes "There is an interesting article by Jan Stafford on the myths of Linux creation. This episode of the series of Linux creation myths, one fellow plays "I Spy," and the other reveals the true origins of the man from Redmond. The author is offering a $50 gift certificate and IT books to the best spinners of tall Linux creation tales. If you can outdo these tall tales."

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  1. The truth is hard to believe by manabadman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The truth is just as unlikely as these made up stories.

    A world class operating system started from scratch by a single person, with no commercial incentive?

    A group of hundreds (thousands?) of persons are from differing countries organization, commercial and voluntarily maintaining and improving it? Concerted development support from companies (IBM, Sun, Novell, HP, Fujitsu, et al) that are fierce competitors every other day of the week?

    Its really amazing. Good luck to everyone trying to spin a better tale than this.