4. OpenClinica: project started 2003, first
published 2005, first global conference in
2009
Nginx: project started 2004, company
founded to support development in 2011
Linux: project started 1991, published version
1.0 in 1994 (and version 3.0 in 2011)
Microsoft Vista: announced 2005, finished
2006, released 2007 and replaced in 2009
5. “Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby,
won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486)
AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is
starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things
people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it
somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system
(due to practical reasons) among other things).”
Linus Torvalds, August 25th, 1991
6. What was our motivation?
Sense of Purpose
Learn from and help others you respect
Desire for mastery
Desire for autonomy
7. “When I started working at the MIT Artificial
Intelligence Lab in 1971, I became part of a
software-sharing community that had existed for
many years. Sharing of software was not limited to
our particular community; it is as old as computers,
just as sharing of recipes is as old as cooking.”
Dr. Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software
Foundation
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html
8. tomh@xig.li
@launchallxig
And yes, you can find me on “Feisbuk”
