Jani On the surface the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize laureates summary ("creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used #Linux kernel") seems to get Linus' work backwards (wasn't it rather "creation of a new open source kernel leading to the widely used Linux-based operating systems"?), but I think a nitpicker should conclude that's *exactly* how it went: he began to write an OS and came to create a kernel (and a development ecosystem!) that, combined with GNU, conquered the world.
