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Explain Like I'm Five

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I'm old. I don't understand it.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

He's not totally wrong to be bugged about it. He basically is the father of modern free software, and by extension all the non-kernel components of a typical Linux machine, but the setup ended up named after another guy and an obsolete thing from Bell labs.