Интересная книга, про знаменитого человека, с необычным взглядом на жизнь.

The honesty of this book commands a lot of respect. Now I can say: I like Linus as a person and I like him as a developer.

The only thing I did not like about the book and it's more on a publisher's side: pages of italic text. It takes a bit more effort to read and slows me down for no reason. I find it annoying.

Fun book/biography of the story around the birth of a new operating system (well a derivative operating system) that was critical to the history of computer software.

The most important impact of the Linux story is the potential productivity of a motivated decentralised force that have a shared objective under an open software development mind set. The socioeconomic impact of this success is still playing out today and will continue to do so with all sorts of opportunities and contradictory failures.

Google would have never existed if it wasn’t for this predecessor example of impact from open technology. And yet this is somehow paradoxical because it flies in the face of what the free software movement has tried to achieve.

Paraphrasing Brand:
- Free information wants to be owned.
- Owned information wants to be free.

Abd these two sides wrap around eachother...

Легкое и приятное чтиво, но немного пустоватое. Не хватает кулсторей про Торвальдса (как, например, в «Masters Of Doom») и деталей о процессе разработке Linux (как в все том же «Masters Of Doom»). Журналистские заметки сделаны для нормиз, так что они мне не очень понравились. Прочитал как большую заметку с интересными фактами про жизнь Торвальдса и Linux с налётом философских постов из «Joel on Software».

un-put-downable. really enjoyed the wry sense of humor and the candidness of Linus