@nyanide Absolutely, but there were a lot of people involved in the GNU project and they couldn't come up with a functional kernel through their group effort. Hell, Hurd is still complete ass more than 30 years later. I refuse the notion that "anyone" could write something rivaling Linux from scratch.

The creators of Unix had a team of experts and the budget of a telecom giant. Torvalds was a single student in a dorm room, and open sourced it for the good of the community. That's what makes him so respected, alongside his maintainership.

> Part of why Linux took off was being at the right place at the right time.

This could be said for literally anything. Things that aren't needed fall into obscurity

Unfortunate for the creators of Unix that AT&T decided to nuke their OS' chance to succeed going forwards, but they are still legends in their own right within the community. And I'm glad Linux came out on top.