MLUG.CA: The Linux Conspiracy

[ Thanks to Trixie for
this link. ]

“The current understanding of the genesis of Linux is that 11
years ago, in Helsinki, Finland, a university student named Linus
Torvalds began to write code for a new operating system. Within a
few years there were thousands of programmers and software
developers around the world all working on Linux. We are told that
they created a world class system without the benefits of direct
salaries, incentives to produce lines of code, hierarchical project
management or oversight. Surely this must seem implausible to some;
perhaps to a few it would appear downright impossible.

“I began to wonder if there wasn’t some intelligence guiding the
process, some kind of mastermind directing things invisibly from
behind the scenes, much as Professor Moriarty controlled the
criminal element in London a century ago. The more I thought about
it the more it became clear to me that the development of Linux was
not as it seemed on the surface. It had to be the product of a
master plan that was long in the making and for a purpose I could
not yet discern…”

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