Linus Torvalds Did Not Do Linux for Software Freedom (at Least Not Initially, Back When Linux Was Still Proprietary)

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-11-14 10:20:46 UTC
Modified: 2022-11-14 16:41:15 UTC

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Summary: Uploaded less than 2 weeks ago was this video (3:20-3:56 above) that coincided with a marketing charade of Intel

Transcript:

[00:00] Linus Torvalds: and so what happened was I was still pretty proud of what I started. So I put it out and it wasn't really initially about Open Source, for me. Intially it was more like, hey ,look at what I've done. Right. Kind of. This is kind of cool, this is kind of interesting, maybe somebody else is interested, and that completely changed everything. And that's, I went from being kind of knowing about open source to being

[00:30] Linus Torvalds: completely convinced this is the only way I ever want to do it. That was my lightbulb moment.

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Linus Torvalds Did Not Do Linux for Software Freedom (at Least Not Initially, Back When Linux Was Still Proprietary)

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