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In 1991, a Finnish computer science student named Linus Torvalds announced, in an email to an Internet news group: I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional) … this has been brewing since April, and is starting to get ready (Steinberg, Mulgan, & Salem, 2005).
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Bentley, T. (2010). Innovation and Diffusion as a Theory of Change. In: Hargreaves, A., Lieberman, A., Fullan, M., Hopkins, D. (eds) Second International Handbook of Educational Change. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2660-6_2
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