Shamelessly copied from a post on a Lemmy look alike site :)
the Linux company mascot
They really had trouble wrapping their minds around this, didn't they.
He didn't give up his fortune directly, because today he is a rich man. He just enriched with a different approach like opting to not lock the source code of his work like another guy we know well...
But I like him anyway
He would've definitely made more even as a senior employee in early Microsoft, IBM or any of the big Corps. Linux exists solely because he made it a collaborative endeavour from the start.
Linux exists solely because he made it a collaborative endeavour from the start.
That is the important part. If Linux had tried to compete with Microsoft as a closed-source operating system, no one would have used it -- who would use a tiny, buggy (back then), incomplete, closed-source operating system made by a few guys in their spare time against a very popular, feature-complete, close-source operating system with billions of dollars funding its engineering effort?
What makes Linux popular is that it is collectively owned, that is as much a feature of the operating system as any technology or algorithm written into the source code itself. That feature is what set it apart from Windows or Mac OS.
opting to not lock the source code of his work like another guy we know well...
I'm out of the loop, who are you referring to?
Ahh, I thought it was somebody else you were talking about since DOS was never open source
Linus is my superhero, apart from being the creator of Linux he can also give me marital recommendations
That so called "company mascot" on page 1 is so cute (-:
EDIT: the penguin, not Linus
