Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answers self 2 years later

Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by bigiain on Sunday January 03, 2021 @07:15PM (#25626602)

Pretty sure Linus never realised his toy operating system would turn into a 30 year project/career.

(I suspect RMS probably suspected the timeframe for GNU, at least for the collection of system utilities rather than the kernel, was going to be a multi decade piece of work.)

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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by relaxing on Sunday January 03, 2021 @10:12PM (#25627590)

Linus was already doing a master’s thesis (like the OP.) He knew Linux wasn’t a weekend project, and he knew the orders of magnitude invoked in creating a commercial OS.

No one can predict the longevity of a project, but that’s not the point.

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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by bigiain on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:26AM (#25629561)

I would bet good money that if you told Linus in late 1991 that he’d spend his entire career working on his “side project” and that it would be the major OS powering many billion and even trillion dollar new tech companies, and running on several billion battery powered and wireless networked pocket supercomputers in 2021 - and that he’d be some sort of software industry messiah - he’d have laughed at you (and probably viciously evicerated you on a public mailing list for your stupidity, like he is wont to do...)

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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by seba_dos1 on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:17AM (#25630914)

Hobby projects can be pretty much the same scale as master's thesis, especially for young people.

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