5/29/2023 0 Comments Just for fun rosalind james![]() ![]() interesting as it is, it is not a life changing insight, nor is really anything else in the book. Linus does reveal a few philosophical thoughts- not just on open source, mind you. it also wasn't overused to the point of being annoying, which it certainly could have been. The switching back and forth between linus and david was interesting and added a little extra perspective. i'm also not entirely disturbed that the book wasn't entirely composed of them. ![]() i wouldn't have liked it as much without them. the pithy technical bits at the beginning were great. In the end, i enjoyed the fact that the book made the legendary linus unremarkably human. despite this, he still has less-than-favorable things to say about gates, jobs, stallman, and tanenbaum, to name a few, which is good for a few laughs. There's a resiliency and an honesty to him i really like, even if he seems to try to avoid every argument. heck, linux wouldn't exist if he hadn't accidentially tried to dial the university of helsinki through /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/tty1. in the end, linus is just another guy with flaws just like anyone else. i had the notion of the "rockstar" shattered many moons ago. ![]() i went into it expecting a certain character to linus and finding a totally different one. ![]()
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