Earlier quoted context omitted.
He might have said the original in Swedish [sic].
sic? Not Finnish?
He was born in the Swedish-speaking community of Finland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish-speaking_Finns
Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize
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#22Re: Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize
#23How ironic it is that they cite Tivo as an example of embedded Linux. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
It'd be ironic if they were giving the award to a FSF person. Linus has no problem with Tivoization, though.
Re: Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize
#24Let's not forget Dr. Yamanaka's contributions to iPS techniques. I keep seeing these trump hESC in all of the primary literature I read (granted, much due to the political stigma of hESC funding).
For example, I've been reading all the literature about the establishment of an antigen deficient RBC precursor line from iPS for replacing blood donations wholesale. We're a long way off since globin expression is wrong (fetal vs adult; thus O2 binding kinetics are wrong; T/R states...), and there are a wide variety of other issues. Unfortunately globin switch is epigenetic / in histone coding...
iPS are amazing and have an incredible future in medicine.
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#25Re: Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize
#26In recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel. Couldn't help but think of RMS and the GNU operating system when I read this sentence.
I couldn't help think: "New? It's over 20 years old...". By this logic, we should still be giving Nirvana awards for "Nevermind".
Re: Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize
#27The 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…
The word "exploit" is a synonym for "use". It's only recently that it acquired the negative connotation of "use without consent or compensation". If the quoted commitee member (it's not a quote from Torvalds) isn't a native English speaker, it's a reasonable mistake to make.
Re: Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize
#28The 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…
He might have said the original in Swedish [sic].
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#29He definitely deserves it. Congrats Linus.
Re: Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize
#30I 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?
It's still there, right at the foot of the page:
In recognition of the unprejudiced creation of a new open source operating system leading to the largely exploited Linux kernel. The free availability on the Web swiftly caused a chain-reaction leading to further development and fine-tuning worth the equivalent of 73,000 man-years. Today the estimated number of users is 30 million. The achievement of Linus Torvalds has had a great impact on software development and on cultural and ethical issues of networking and openness of the Web.