"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."

 — Henry Spencer

Usenet signature, November 1987

With Linux in the tags... The point of Linux wasn't to replace Unix, but rather to replace a shitty Unix clone with a better version.

@rEaL-jAsE true, Linus turned down Apple's job offer, otherwise Linux on Apple laptops would have been a fantastic product.

@filthyranter Linux was just a hobby project of Linus Torvalds, he had no plans with it whatsoever. It wasn’t the replacement of anything. GNU/Linux became so big because it was a non-proprietary OS that Unix users could adapt to without effort.

@620hun He made it because some shitty UNIX clone inspired him to.

@filthyranter by shitty Unix clone are you referring to MINIX???

@AleCx04 😯

@AleCx04 kinda

@rEaL-jAsE Unix is a specification, Apple are following it not reinventing it

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