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Linus Is A Hero
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."
I have already said I worship in the Church of Linux.
This is going to make those "it's not a religious" arguments a lot harder!
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... Flash is the most horribly evil thing ever to come out of the computer industry. It chokes the flow of free information and turns pages (of information) into giant full-screen animated talking commercials.
:)
That rant's over for now, so I'll just have to ask for somebody to get a text list or something.
If so, then does does that make this a hit list too?
Oh my lord... what were they think...err, drinking?
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Go Linus!
:)
I always knew he rocked, that's why I named my cockatiel after him!
I also named my fish after Alan Cox... but the fish died, so no wonder he didn't make the list
I can hear RMS now... "you should refer to Linus as a GNU/Hero."
"And like that
Two other free compilers:
lcc
TenDRA
If not gcc, there would be even more free compilers. Writing a compiler is not as simple as writing another ICQ client, but it's still not rocket science.
Yeah, and RMS doesn't have a house. He needs MIT. Maybe we should start calling him MIT/Stallman.
> Linus Is A Hero
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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.
A hero.
Superpowers:
Kernel strike - takes 10 turns, produces a kernel that combined with a set of GNU tools decreases enemy share on the server market.
E-mail - takes 0 turns, gives additional activity to every geek character on LKML. This multiplies by 100 if re-posted on Slashdot.
Flying - well, not yet.
Ringo got shafted again.
He isn't as visible as the others; but he's done a lot of post-Beatles work for charity.
Cheers, Ringo.
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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.
(I'm dutch, not english, so forgive spalling errors. CmdrTaco is now verifying syntax & vocaulary :-)
The free Linux-software developed itself the past few years as a solid comptetitor against Windows. The Fin Linus Torvalds is the hero of the 'open source'- movement.
The Finse student Linus Torvalds wrote in 1991 a first version of Linux. Torvalds asked a few friend-programmers to have a look at and comment on his creation. Thuswas born a cooperation that still today leads tp continuous improvement of the operating system.
Meanwhile, there is a core of at least 1000 internetusers continuously polishing linux.
besides this core, there are many one-time contributions. Thru nightly chat-sessions the discussion about possible additions and improvements of this common good are worked out.
initially, linux turned out to be an OS for fanatic hobbyists, usualy working in academic situations. At the end of the 90s, linux started rising in computer centers of lartge companies. System administrators download linux for free from the Net and use it 'en masse' as webserver, often without IT managers knowledge.
If problems come to light, they get notified in newsgroups all over the net, whereafter tenthousands of programmers are volunteering to help finding a solution.
The advantages of linux are numerous according to open-source fans. Mostly because it is free : in contrast with other software, no licences have to be paid, but rather it is freely downloadable.
Then they go on an nag about linus being gay, having a goatse affair with CmdrTaco in russia in a base that belongs to someone who has bad grammar (like me). Or something.
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
Sure, I respect Linus for his work and contributions to the IT world and the "liberation" from propertairy software and unethical licenses. However, the REAL heroes on that page are two victims of "zinloos geweld" as we dutch people call it, or "senseless violence" if translated into english. These two people I'm talking about are René Steegmans and Meindert Tjoelker (both on the same page as Linus) who were killed for no reason at all. Maybe not such a big thing in the US, but remember that the Netherlands is about 1/232th the size of the US. (according to the CIA factbook, ahem) Meindert Tjoelker was killed when trying to calm a fight between a few people and René Steegmans was killed when he questioned a bunch of guys wether they had any respect for an old lady who they almost ran over on scooters. They are real heroes to us Dutchies.
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Did anybody else notice that one of their "heroes" is a ZOMBIE!!!?? It looks like one of the zombies from the "Living Dead" series. I expect him to say "Braaaaiiiinnnns" (in Dutch, of course).