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  1. Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 03:25:52 EDT Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺

    #OpenSource dot com asks: What was the most important moment in the history of #Linux? - Many people probably no longer know that early versions of Linux where proprietary because the license prohibited commercial redistribution. Therefore, for me it was the most important moment when Linus Thorvalds released Linux as #FreeSoftware under the #GNU #GPL. Otherwise Linux wouldn't have had this enormous success. https://opensource.com/article/18/8/linux-history

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      Getting to where it is today was no small feat for the little project that Linus Torvalds announced to the world on August 25, 1991, with this newsgroup post: Hello everybody out there using minix -
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