What the Tech Industry Has Learned from Linus Torvalds: Jim Zemlin at TEDxConcordiaUPortland
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Zemlin's career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing and open source software. As executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate the adoption of Linux and support the future of computing. Zemlin works with the world's largest technology companies to help define the future of computing on the server, in the cloud and on a variety of new mobile computing devices. Zemlin has been recognized as a top Linux and open source blogger and is widely quoted in the press on Linux and the changing economics of the technology industry. Zemlin also advises a variety of startups, and sits on the boards of the Global Economic Symposium, Open Source For America and Chinese Open Source Promotion Union. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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I like this Jim dude. He obviously like what he does and most importantly he does not take him self seriously.
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skynet runs on a mac so it won't be infected
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scambag apple :)
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Windows has disabled many to understand Linus.
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Linux is still garbage for home use
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I can spot a practiced bullshitter from a mile away. Lots of words, nothing to say.
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This guy sounds exactly like the executives who tries to lead a technical team with no technical background but years of experience of bullshitting. Most of what he said didn't have any actual deep understanding and study to back them. That's probably why Linus doesn't even bother to give a shit about what he says.
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Another flaw in this argument is that - going by observable results - free software works best in large, complex software but not small(er) simple(r) software - which category most software falls into. I'm for free software but I'm realistic. Developer or user - use it when it's appropriate and/or when you want to. That's true freedom.
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I'd like to interject...
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8:32 Lying with statistics, because stock share price is SUCH A BOGUS METRIC for success. Sure, Microsoft's share price is flat. But it's revenue is SIXTY TWO times greater than Red Hat's, and it's profits are SIXTY EIGHT times greater.
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You forgot UNIX
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La traducción que se hace ajl castellano de "free software" es inexacta, se refiere a software libre, no software gratuito, como Richard Stallman advierte insistentemente.
Muchas gracias por la traducción.
Saludos,
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And Linus did it again with Git
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Decent talk Jim, but I don't think you nailed it with this version. Room for improvement.
It's not that all of us together > any one of us. It is that by vigorously weeding out the the bad ideas from a sea of ideas you get a great sum of parts. The people are not what is central in this approach but the idea. It is being tough on ideas constantly that gives the results. Being a jerk with other people I think is still an open point IMO. I think you want to generally promote self moderation on being a jerk to people, but calling an idea stupid should always be fair game. -
so what was the point of this talk? he only said some very basic stuff about linux and touched upon some 'inspirational' quotes. What a marginal speech. 2/5
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That would be GNU-Linux, fella.
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If RMS was in the audience he would have shouted...
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1.3 million smart phones running linux are activated every single day !
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I really don't believe in open source. If you hold your software applications to be of worth, you won't give it away for free unless you are an idiot.
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Yuck at that graph of 3 companies based on closed, partially open and open software. Please don't draw conclusions based on the correlation between three data points!
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