Richard Stallman, Linux probably wouldn't be where it is today. Richard was working on a similar sort of project. Linus had the kernel and Richard had the desktop environment or the user interface or whatever you want to call it, the user land portion of it. And, you know, it's the combination of the GNU tools with the Linux kernel has evolved into what we have today as Linux or some would argue more accurately referred to as GNU Linux. And 25 years it's been around. Well, OK, I'll give credit that he helped, but I don't think he's as relevant as he used to be. I would say if anybody deserves credit would be Fedora or Red Hat. Red Hat, OpenSUSE, even Ubuntu. And let's not forget Debian. Those guys really do a lot to promote Linux. Red Hat being one of the better known ones in the Debian project, of course. So I would have to say it was kind of like a marriage of opportunity more than anything. Yeah, I would agree that after its initial launch, Linux really took on a life of its own in (33/42)
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