“What Linux is, why some call it the antidote to all things
Microsoft, and how to assess whether it’s the right computer
operating system for your business.“
“In 1991, a fresh-faced computer-science student working on his
master’s thesis at the University of Finland in Helsinki decided to
invite the world to help him develop software.”
“The student, Linus Torvalds, posted his homegrown variant of
the popular Unix computer operating system on an Internet bulletin
board and asked for a review. It was the start of what he would
call Linux.”
“Torvalds attracted about 10 developers who agreed to help
develop code and to freely share any changes they made to the
operating system. Nine years later, this shared code remains
Linux’s defining feature.”