Dan Gillmor on Nostr: Linus Torvalds is the keynote speaker (an interview, not a speech). His brilliant ...
Linus Torvalds is the keynote speaker (an interview, not a speech).
His brilliant stewardship of the Linux kernel has been the linchpin of a project that, long ago, was little more than an essential extension of GNU.
I believe I was the first "mainstream media" journalist to tell Americans about him and his project, back in 1996 in the San Jose Mercury News.
The story is buried behind a paywall, but someone helpfully posted it here:
https://www.tech-insider.org/linux/research/1996/0908.html
His brilliant stewardship of the Linux kernel has been the linchpin of a project that, long ago, was little more than an essential extension of GNU.
I believe I was the first "mainstream media" journalist to tell Americans about him and his project, back in 1996 in the San Jose Mercury News.
The story is buried behind a paywall, but someone helpfully posted it here:
https://www.tech-insider.org/linux/research/1996/0908.html