• janAkali@lemmy.oneOP
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    8 months ago

    Half of the linux ecosystem is personal projects.
    Linux itself started as

    just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu

    It’s not useless as you can learn from it.

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      8 months ago

      The reason Linux is such a big deal is that it was the one of dozens that didn’t fail. This is ignorable.

      “People laughed at Einstein, they also laughed at bozo the clown.”

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        8 months ago

        By your logic, you cannot dismiss the project for being a personal one. Only if it fails, is it dismissable.