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According to its creator, Linus Torvalds, it was just for fun, but also mainly to teach himself the 386 instruction and feature sets.
Erroneously, a lot of FSF types like to claim Linux was created to provide the world with a free and open source operating system, but at no point has anyone involved in the actual creation of Linux ever stated this as a motivation. The reality was that at the time Linus had no actual ambition for the project (It 'wouldn't be big like GNU' in his own words.)
Even today, Linus has often been vocal in his criticism of Richard Stallman and the FSF for following a blind "everything must be free and open source" mentality. He believes more in a "use what works best" philosophy, as do most Linux users, a great deal of whom could care less about the GPL.
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