“While businesses such as Red Hat and VA Linux Systems have
generated billions of dollars for their founders and stockholders,
the benefits have flowed the other way as well, the founder of
Linux said today.”
“Linux has been technically strong, but the influence of the
business world has forced it to become usable as well, said Linus
Torvalds, founder and still leader of the collective effort to
develop the operating system, at a keynote address at the
LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.”
“Technologists often forget the general user,” Torvalds said.
“Technology is only as good as the user experience. That is
something that technology groups very often forget.” Linux
companies aren’t just parasites because they make sure much of the
“boring” bug-fixing and other maintenance gets done.”
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