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The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

Book by Eric S. Raymond · 3 quotes · Programming, Hackers, Firsts

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“Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.”

“Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.”