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Linus Is A Hero

Posted by Hemos on from the saint-linus-of-codex dept.

oever writes "The dutch broadcaster KRO has chosen 365 modern saints or heros. One of them is Linus Torvalds, chosen for his work in on Linux and 'Open Source'. Too bad RMS or Saint Ignuciuis he wasn't chosen, even though he was recommended."

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  1. Re:hmmm.. by Nyh · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Did you understand why he has choosen them?

    Tina turner: for overcomming humiliation
    James Taylor: for getting rid of drugs

    Nyh!

  2. The hero's now working for PALLADIUM by glMatrixMode · · Score: 3, Interesting

    > Linus Is A Hero

    And today, the hero is working for one of the companies behind Palladium :
    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6487

    I posted this on the 'linuxnewbie' forums some time ago, but it curiously disappeared. I've received no mail from the moderators and I've really verified that my message had really been posted. My interpretation is that some linuxnewbie moderator was a Linus fan.

    --
    War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left.
  3. Re:I know this won't be popular... by kalidasa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As unpopular as they and their creations are to a lot of people here, I think it's unfair to ignore how they were able to bring the internet to millions of users who, without Windows and/or AOL, would have never been able to do so.

    Apple+Prodigy, or Apple+CompuServe, would have done it. AOL's real genius (whether they were Steve Case's ideas, or more likely those of his staff) was making the Internet connection in AOL work more simply than in the other online services, and in coming out with the unlimited connection plan when he did (despite the horrible user experience that led to for the first year or so after the change). Microsoft's real genius wrt the Internet (whether they were Bill Gates's ideas, or more likely those of his staff) was in recognizing the threat that Netscape posed to the Microsoft model and quickly leveraging free code into a "dumped" product (IE 2; don't talk to me about IE 1) that usurped Netscape's place and either per accidens or purposefully (the latter would be more complimentary to Microsoft) integrated the user's experience of the Web and the 'Net with the user's experience of the operating system.

    In some ways, what MS is talking about now is what Sun was talking about 5 years ago. Moving the real work onto the network and off the desktop.