:37:00
Well, I think it's justified but it is justified
if you actually make GNU distribution of Linux.
:37:07
The same way that I think that Red Hat Linux
is fine or SuSE Linux, or Debian Linux.
:37:16
Uh, because if you actually make your
own distribution of Linux
:37:20
You get to name the thing.
:37:22
But calling Linux in general "GNU Linux"
I think, is just ridiculous.
:37:29
I got involved in Fall '93.
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Because I was sent a copy of the first CD-ROM
commercial Linux distribution,
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which was called Yggdrasi produced by Adam Richter.
:37:44
And I got a copy because...
:37:46
I had been myself writing Free Software for
a long time since the early 80's.
:37:51
I was actually one of the
early GNU contributors myself.
:37:55
And I was absolutely astonished,
:37:57
I was completely astonished.
:37:59
Because I've been a software engineer
for nearly 15 years at that point.
:38:04
And according to all the rules I knew...
:38:07
about controlling complexity,
keeping a project group small,
:38:11
having closely managed objectives.
:38:15
Linux should have been a disaster, and it wasn't.
:38:18
Instead, it was something wonderful,
:38:20
and I was determined to figure out
how they were getting a way with that.
:38:27
In order for Linux to grow beyond
the world of the computer programmer
:38:31
It needed a use, an application
that made it a must-have technology
:38:36
That threshold was crossed
:38:38
with the development of a program
that made complex websites possible
:38:43
That program is the Apache web server.
:38:47
The killer app of Linux was undoubtedly
the Apache web server.
:38:51
If you look at the history of Linux,
:38:54
the adoption curve of Linux and
the adoption curve of the Internet
:38:59
exactly track each other.