- 1984: The GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation
- Creates open source version of UNIX utilities.
- Creates the General Public License (GPL)
- Software license enforcing open source principles
- 1991: Linus Torvalds
- Creates open source, UNIX-like kernel, released under the GPL.
- Ports some GNU utilities, solicits assistance online
- Today :
- Linux kernel + GNU utilities = complete, open source, UNIX-like operating system.
- Packaged for targeted audiences as distributions.
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Linus Torvalds tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon for open source software by the end of the decade.
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