The Linux Origin Story & King of Open Source 

I totally agree. I think it was odd how he didn't mention the importance of GNU and the original motivation behind the FOSS movement in this whole story; Linux was really a piece of a much larger puzzle. In reality, what he was referring to as Linux, was, in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities, and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

Great video though as usual

He may have meant it as "Microsoft was competing with Windows as their offering".

7:03 Now *there* is some Linux kernel code.

Funny how in the actual video he mentions that very fact

Prior to that time, people thought they could share code just by saying it was “public domain”. Then some lawyers pointed out that, in some jurisdictions, you cannot simply say that something is “public domain”, because that means it is not copyrighted, which is not true - it still falls under copyright.

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 the way it was mentionned in the video really feels like Stallman one days says "hey ... why not sharing our code" when stallman says in its biography that closed was an emerging thing.

at some point in time, it will.

@@SomeUnremarkableGuy yes it is

Give us a time limit within which you think it will cross 1million+ views.

@@i33o7dot9 I don't know about day or year, and it's my opinion it will happen one day, see yaa brother, have a great day.

This is true. Although Stallman doesn't prefer to be called as the father or godfather of Open Source, it is Richard Stallman who started this.

@@dexternepo absolutely

Absolutely. Linux filled the gap of a missing kernel for the GNU project as herd wasn't ready at the time (and I think still isn't!)

@@tristandunn4628 no offense: although people hype Linus but he designed a small kernel, but Linus earned the credit because from starting he completely open-sourced linux, but without Richard, the world might not recognise the power of open-source Companies take this open source projects, and use their own terms, and getting paid by customers, but not giving any sort of composition nor credits to the incredible contributors who are collaborating from around the world, that's what makes me hurt. Although it's open-source, but people investing their time, we love to contribute but getting credit for their work helps

Very true. I was searching for that comment. RMS would not just be offended but freak out on how people still dont get free software after him preaching it for decades now 😂

He is trying to draw a distinction without a difference.

Free software is defined by the FSF’s list of the Four Freedoms. Care to point out in what way the Open Source Definition does not guarantee those Freedoms?