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Linux Goes to Hollywood

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 15, 2017

 A highlight of the event was an on stage conversation with Linux creator Linus Torvalds, who made a plea to encourage hackers to become Linux developers before going to the – dark side. Hollywood actor

Joseph Gordon-Levitt also was on the keynote stage, talking about his collaborative movie-making startup HitRecord, which follows community patterns that are common in open source software development.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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