“While this was happening, I was taking a nap, and I recommend this method of installing Linux: napping, while Linus does the hard work.”
Torvalds bought a 386 with 4 megabytes of RAM in January 1991 and spent the first months playing Prince of Persia. The first Linux license forbade commercial use. A Stallman talk, contributor pressure and Wirzenius’s nagging moved it to the GPL in early 1992. In 1994 they declared it finished and compiled 1.0 for the Finnish press, because commercial Unix for a PC cost too much. The cheapest way out of a software bill turned into the most important operating system on earth.