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I say you’ve won an operating system once you’ve contributed code that got into its kernel

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Kernel, compiler and WebKit back in the day, taking the hat trick.

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So the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!

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The fear your code will break something one day and Linus will hunt you down will forever your thoughts.

Game over.

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Your comment seems to have a ----- missing…

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I don’t even

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Alright, have an upvote 👍

But… If you wrote the boss (or even just portions of it), then defeat the kernel boss you partly wrote, isn’t that like cheating?

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Windows when you can activate it without giving MS your info. Of course, like so many final bosses, it tends to come back harder the next phase.

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Kinguin ftw

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