Inventors & Engineers · Digital
Linus Torvalds
A Helsinki student's 1991 hobby kernel became the OS of servers, Android and supercomputers; then he wrote Git in 10 days. Open-source development, the GPL, and the 'benevolent dictator' model.
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Prereqs: Operating systems basics. Next: Git workflows; The Innovators. Sources: Linus Torvalds & David Diamond, *Just for Fun* (2001); Linux Foundation kernel development reports; Torvalds' 1991 comp.os.minix post.Next: 1. Linux and Git