[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“It’s been about 15 years since the original version of the
Linux kernel was produced by Linus Torvalds, and over those 15
years, Linux has grown from a toy into a functional OS with some
potential. My congratulations to all involved.“The maturation of Linux has been reasonably swift–due
essentially to the duplication through the direct copying or
reverse engineering of all manner of features/tools/utilities found
in the Unix environment. So although reasonably swift, still
probably encompassing several hundred thousand man of development,
the vast bulk of Linux development is a result of the million or so
of man years of development of the various versions of the Unix
operating system on which it has piggybacked…”