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Linus' Other Gift to the World
Glyn Moody writes "Linus is widely recognised for initiating two major developments: Linux and Git (it's an interesting discussion which of the two in the long term will be regarded as more important). But there's a third, which people tend to overlook: he also pioneered the key ideas behind what later came to be called open innovation. As more and more companies open up to embrace customer-generated ideas, and the idea spreads to other areas like open government, perhaps it's time to add open innovation to the list of Linus' achievements."
I thought innovation was what the Big Corporations did after the patent's ran out.
Take the case of the X-Y-Box (the first mouse) it was patented in the 60's. and low and behold on the 80's we got GUI's with mice. makes one think. Is this kind innovation setting us back 20 or 30 years.
Can someone explain, or point to a discussion, of how it is argued that Git could be more important in the long term than Linux? Isn't Git small fish compared to Linux?
Linux wanted have his own UNIX-like computor. Buying a VAX to run Berkeley Software Distribution was at that time not afforable for a mere student and you also had to have an AT&T license for them.
The 386 BSD was released after Linux was started; Linux was started in '91 and BSD 386 came out '92.
Also you had the large lawsuit regarding BSD in '92 which slowed the development for BSD versions for 2 years.
Since then BSD systems more or less has been playing catch up with the more capable Linux system.
Had the BSD for 386 been released earlier and has not the big lawsuit stopped the distribution of BSD for 2 years
that Linux would probably not been much more then a hobby project that become abandoned when something
better came along. But instead Linux become the #1 UNIX-like operating system of choice.
Just saying it like it are.