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Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 6 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

I don't think that's even true. He just had enough money that he could fail 99 times before succeeding once, and the return from that one was enough that he could fail 999 times before succeeding, and so on.
He just threw money around until enough other people succeeded in big enough ways, and then he claims credit.