Hats off,indeed!

On 24-Aug-2016 21:12, "Arun Khan" knura9@gmail.com wrote:

August 25, 1991, it was released to the world as a "hobby" ...

Slide deck by e-Week showing the evolution of the Linux kernel from 1991 (10K lines of code) to 2016 (22M lines of code) http://bit.ly/2bfvxxA

Today, it is everywhere, from the smallest device to the biggest mainframe and beyond the boundaries of our planet.

Linus Torvalds and *all* the contributors to Linux - what a legacy you have created and what a wonderful gift you have given to human kind!

Hats off to all.

-- Arun Khan

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Today, it is everywhere, from the smallest device to the biggest mainframe and beyond the boundaries of our planet.

Linus Torvalds and *all* the contributors to Linux - what a legacy you have created and what a wonderful gift you have given to human kind!

I agree. Linus' biggest contribution in my view is that he took Open Source to the mainstream, otherwise it would have just remained in academia.

By being pragmatic and agreeing to co-opt with the commercial concerns (rather than view them as the "other") and he himself being idealist really pushed the revolution.

Shows that you can be an idealist and a realist at the same time.

"Free Software" and "Open Source" can co-exist. Some of us are lucky to be living off grants, but that does not mean we look down on people who need to earn their living.