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The day our mind became open sourced

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Linewbie.com Posted in open source .

I will remember therefore clearly the precise day my personal mind became open sourced. It had been a sharp and sun-drenched November day time in 1973. Following class within middle college, I known as up my closest friend, Bruce The nike jordan, and requested, “Can We come to play right now? ” Bruce responded, “Sure. inch I leaped on my personal red, one-speed Schwinn bike and biked such as mad both miles to Bruce’s home. I showed up happily breathless.

Bruce had been fun in order to play along with because he or she was continuously inventing brand new games in order to play, each indoors as well as outdoors. There is never the dull second at Bruce’s home. So whenever we sat right down to play Scrabble which day, Bruce automatically suggested: “Let’s every take 10 letters instead of 7. Which will improve the overall game play a great deal. ” We protested, “But the guidelines on the actual box from the game say that you are supposed to consider 7 characters. ”
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Mark Shuttleworth wants to turn canonical (ubuntu) into the next Apple Inc.

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Linewbie.com Posted in interviews, people .

Positive Reddish Head wear merely crested the particular $1 billion-revenue indicate together with practically $150 thousand inside income although Canonical, creator regarding Ubuntu Linux, nonetheless just isn’t rewarding right after more effective decades in operation.

Ubuntu president Indicate Shuttleworth claims… just what exactly?

He has received huge ideas regarding Canonical and also he has wanting to fix a more impressive difficulty: can easily a great available resource business generate income when that constantly offers the computer software apart at no cost and only fees regarding other stuff?
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