Linus Torvalds's Revolution in Open Source Market



Linus Torvalds with Linux penguin.

Torvalds described the first version of Linux in his 1991 M.Sc. thesis at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He posted a USENET message saying, “I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional…).” In 2009, some 10 million computers were running Linux.

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As large corporations came to dominate the software market, Linus Torvalds took the opposite tack, advocating a return to computing’s communal roots.

Torvald released his Linux operating system in 1994. A global community of professionals and hobbyists has continually improved it, revitalizing the open source ideal. Even mainstream corporations have adopted it.

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