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Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

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Re: Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

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Post by bazzargh »

I think the selection committee downplayed the importance of Linux a bit: "Today the estimated number of users is 30 million...".

According to ComScore, there's around 52 million Android users in the US alone. And then there's all the users of Linux-based websites...which is just about everyone who owns a computer.

Re: Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

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Post by [deleted] »

bazzargh wrote: post #2

I think the selection committee downplayed the importance of Linux a bit: "Today the estimated number of users is 30 million...". According to ComScore, there's around 52 million Android users in the US alone. And then there's all the users of Linux-based websites...which is just about everyone who owns a computer.

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Re: Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

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Post by sp332 »

bazzargh wrote: post #2

I think the selection committee downplayed the importance of Linux a bit: "Today the estimated number of users is 30 million...". According to ComScore, there's around 52 million Android users in the US alone. And then there's all the users of Linux-based websites...which is just about everyone who owns a computer.

I think it's been modified to just "millions", unless I'm looking in the wrong place?

Re: Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

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Post by davidw »

The text is pretty bad for such a prestigious thing:

> Linus Torvalds said:

> “Software is too important in the modern world not to be developed through open sources.

"Sources"? I bet he didn't say that.

This bit is even worse if you're at all familiar with tech:

> What the selection committee said about this year’s Laureates

> Linus Torvalds > “In recognition of the unprejudiced creation of a new open source operating system leading to the largely exploited Linux kernel.

"Widely used", not "largely exploited"!

Re: Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

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Post by unwind »

davidw wrote: post #7

The text is pretty bad for such a prestigious thing: > Linus Torvalds said: > “Software is too important in the modern world not to be developed through open sources. "Sources"? I bet he didn't say that. This bit is even worse if you're at all familiar with tech: > What the selection committee said about this year’s Laureates > Linus Torvalds > “In recognition of the unprejudiced creation of a new open source operati…

Agree, the sentence "Today millions use computers, smartphones and digital video recorders like Tivo run on Linux." also doesn't feel likt it's quite done.

Nevertheless, huge congratulations of course, it's always fun when Linus (and software engineering in general) gets some recognition. :)

Re: Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

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Post by jmilloy »

davidw wrote: post #7

The text is pretty bad for such a prestigious thing: > Linus Torvalds said: > “Software is too important in the modern world not to be developed through open sources. "Sources"? I bet he didn't say that. This bit is even worse if you're at all familiar with tech: > What the selection committee said about this year’s Laureates > Linus Torvalds > “In recognition of the unprejudiced creation of a new open source operati…

1. I agree it sounds a little abnormal, but it makes sense to me. Why are you so quick to write "open sources" off as error (or fabrication)?

2. from google re: exploit - 1. Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource): "500 companies sprang up to exploit this new technology".

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