Shameless plug of my related submission of yesterday : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18345058
If someone can explain it, I'm open to new hypothesis.
Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)
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Re: Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)
#22> I'm doing a (free) operating system (__just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu__) for 386(486) AT clones. [...] and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(. __just a hobby, won't be big and professional like X__ probably is how most of the startups get started.
Not anymore. :-( Sell before you build a product! Don't build what you want, build what other's want! Build what other's are going to pay money for, hell, sell it, get a contract before you write a line of code! If you don't have a market size of multiple billions is not worth doing! Are you going to make billions upon billions? No? don't do it! Hobby? It's not even worth of a side project.
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#23Although I’ve read this probably a dozen times. What I think about this today, as I’m about to reviel my next project is that it’s so crazy how things evolved for open source. Nowadays people compete with companies and having an announcment like this usually includes :
- website explaining as a pitch what is better about your software
- ready to use examples and templates to support your claim
- branding with a logo that makes you look more professional
- issue tracker
- github repository ( even mirror of yours )
- bugfree software ready for production from day one.
And many more which I probably miss.
Writing something “cool” nowadays is not enough to be taken from the folks seriously.
Re: Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)
#24I can only imagine the first comment was someone telling him it would never work.
This was before AOL.
Re: Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)
#25Shameless plug of my related submission of yesterday : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18345058 If someone can explain it, I'm open to new hypothesis.
Strange, why hasn't it doubled now that women can contribute to Linux?
Re: Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)
#26Didn’t people on usenet pay his computer off?
Re: Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)
#27Although I’ve read this probably a dozen times. What I think about this today, as I’m about to reviel my next project is that it’s so crazy how things evolved for open source. Nowadays people compete with companies and having an announcment like this usually includes : - website explaining as a pitch what is better about your software - ready to use examples and templates to support your claim - branding with a logo…
And yet with all that ... I likely still won't understand what exactly the product or thing is or does.
Meanwhile I understand Linus's email well enough.
Re: Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)
#28Although I’ve read this probably a dozen times. What I think about this today, as I’m about to reviel my next project is that it’s so crazy how things evolved for open source. Nowadays people compete with companies and having an announcment like this usually includes : - website explaining as a pitch what is better about your software - ready to use examples and templates to support your claim - branding with a logo…
I think that is a little simplistic, the main thing that got Linux going was sustained and continued effort. If this first message had been a flop Linus would likely have continued working and pushing it through. It was almost a decade before Linux could be considered a "real" operating system ready for production.
Re: Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)
#29> I'm doing a (free) operating system (__just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu__) for 386(486) AT clones. [...] and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(. __just a hobby, won't be big and professional like X__ probably is how most of the startups get started.
Based on the pitches I’ve seen, it’s very much the opposite. ”We are about to completely upend the X industry, with a market potential of hundreds of billions”
When I hear this, My instinct is to roll my eyes. So much hyperbole in startups, it’s one of the large reasons I don’t see myself working for a startup.
Re: Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)
#30> I'm doing a (free) operating system (__just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu__) for 386(486) AT clones. [...] and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(. __just a hobby, won't be big and professional like X__ probably is how most of the startups get started.
Based on the pitches I’ve seen, it’s very much the opposite. ”We are about to completely upend the X industry, with a market potential of hundreds of billions”
"We are disrupting the AI blockchain cannabis industry using state of the art AR/VR technology"