Linus Torvalds shares Millennium Technology Prize

[philinux]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18423502

Article pre the announcement.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18419231

There's also a nice interview on newscientist.com

[Linuxratty]

I was hoping he would get it.

[roelforg]

Yup, good 'ol humble linus again.
That man'll never change and i don't think i'd want him to.

[sanderella]

Good! :KS

[MisterGaribaldi]

Somewhere, there's a really, really pissed-off Christmas Tree †.

† This is a German-langauge reference.

[odiseo77]

Good, he deserves it!

[buzzingrobot]

Good for Linus. Well deserved. (A small hat tip for Andy Tannenbaum for Minix, which gave Linus his start.)

Maybe he'll buy us all dinner with the winnings.

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

I like this statement by Torvalds in the http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18419231 article:

"And the thing is, if your competition doesn't put in the same kind of effort that you do, then they can't reap the same kinds of rewards you can: if they don't contribute, they don't get to control the direction of the project {my bold text for emphasis}, and they won't have the same kind of knowledge and understanding of it that you do."

That seems to apply to a lot of Open Source projects. It is not just companies contributing. It includes users of the OS or application. If you don't contribute to the project; then, you don't have influence on the direction in which it is going.

If you don't contribute to the Ubuntu code base; then, you are just going to have to live with whatever the contributes decide to do with Ubuntu.

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