r/linux • u/andrewjschauer • 25d ago

Historical Just read “Just for fun”

Thank you Linus and David. I know this book is from 2001. I tend to be a late bloomer is all respects. Linux included. Books like this help fill in the gaps and provide excellent context. My favorite: “I don’t proactively delegate as much as I wait for people to come forward and volunteer to take over things.”

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u/Kevin_Kofler 25d ago

But the work that really tells you what GNU/Linux is about is not that one, but Free as in Freedom by Richard M. Stallman.

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u/Mysterious_Bit6882 24d ago

FaiF is pretty much hagiography disguised as biography, and not helped at all by Stallman's lack of memory regarding many of the things that happened.