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Nikolai Bezroukov. Portraits of Open Source Pioneers
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Unix Wars of 1987-1993: POSIX as a result of struggle of AT&T and Sun against the rest of the world
Minix as a precursor of Linux Hijacking of MINIX community and the beginning of Linux development (1991-1994) Unix reimplementation by an MS DOS user ;-)
Drunken walk principle as technical policy
The Birth of Commercial Open Source: Linus blesses commercial open source model and becomes a dignified release manager and major beneficiary
Reinforcements arrived: Professionals from DEC start to contribute to Linux by doing Alpha port (1994)
Linus Cult: Linus "Kernel" Torvalds became the most popular Finn on the planet (1995-1997)
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Created May 16, 1998; Last modified: August 27, 2008