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gonein60 on March 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

I always think back to Linus Torvalds's first email about starting linux.

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones."

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