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The prediction that Linux had no future aged disastrously
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A few months after Linus Torvalds released the first version of Linux, he found himself arguing publicly with someone whose work had helped shape the project in the first place. If you're fuzzy on the terminology, what the Linux kernel actually does is central to the argument that followed because Torvalds and Andrew Tanenbaum fundamentally disagreed over how that core of an operating system should be designed.
Tanenbaum was a respected computer science professor, the creator of MINIX, and the author of a widely used textbook on operating system design. Torvalds had used MINIX himself, and the story of how he created Linux and why it became free software is closely tied to the Unix-like systems and development tools already around him. The MINIX newsgroup was also one of the places where early Linux development took shape.
Then, on January 29, 1992, Tanenbaum posted a message to comp.os.minix with a subject line that made his opinion pretty clear.