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▶ 4:00:37 David Rosenthal And Android did the same thing with Linux.
▶ 4:00:39 David Rosenthal They wrestled Linux into a battery-powered mobile device that fits in your pocket.

▶ 50:35 Steve Ballmer Well, remember, by this time, we're not through our IBM competition, and we got Linux competition now on the docket, because Linux is competing with Windows Server.
▶ 50:47 Steve Ballmer Linux is competing with Windows, and there's a thing called OpenOffice.
▶ 51:58 Steve Ballmer I mean, people say that they might mean Azure, AWS, or in the old days, Windows, or Windows Server, or Unix, uh, then Linux.
▶ 55:55 Steve Ballmer Linux is right there on the horizon.
▶ 57:25 Ben Gilbert We're still in this death grip for enterprise developers or this death fight against IBM, and yet there's now Linux and the web for these more sort of like independent or platform of the future looking developers and
▶ 57:52 Steve Ballmer There's some infrastructure on top of Linux that people are using to write
▶ 1:21:02 Steve Ballmer You become a different kind of a platform because you're running other people's Linux and whatever.

▶ 37:26 David Rosenthal A rich web app as one of these projects, you know, fully built on the LAMP stack, and he had probably used the LAMP stack, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP for course match.
▶ 38:36 Ben Gilbert And this is all just, like, free and something you could cobble together and upload onto some Linux web hosting, and boom.
▶ 5:43:27 Ben Gilbert Oh, Linux is open source, and this is the free standard that everybody uses, and there's just sort of a foundation behind it all.

▶ 3:02:31 Ben Gilbert I mean, if you think about where all the development efforts were going, it was the LAMP stack, the, uh, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, the stuff Facebook was written on.
▶ 3:45:24 David Rosenthal They didn't go full infrastructure as a service and embrace open source and let people use Azure to run Linux into LAMP stack on top of it.
▶ 3:55:26 David Rosenthal Like you're saying, Ben, they might be running Linux on there.

▶ 3:05:43 Ben Gilbert Like, and I, when I was 10, my dad and I found a, um, PC on the side of the road, and he was like, do you want to install Linux?
▶ 3:05:50 Ben Gilbert And I was like, what's Linux?
▶ 3:06:04 David Rosenthal And you were like, let's install Linux.

▶ 17:05 Ben Gilbert And to be honest, the thing that really changed all this was Linux.
▶ 17:09 Ben Gilbert When Linux came out and you could do the stuff that you used to need Unix workstations for on an open source operating system, well then everything changed because you can go buy a whole bunch of different hardware, put Linux on it, and…
▶ 17:49 Ben Gilbert I mean, in 2000, they almost went out of business because they were so tight on cash and they were spending so much on infrastructure that this sort of moved to the open source ecosystem and doing a massive rewrite of all of Amazon.com to…

▶ 1:26:45 David Rosenthal No more than they could go to Linux, download open source software and run a multi-billion dollar

▶ 19:44 Brendan Eich Commercial open source in the form of Linux was up, and Red Hat was up and running.
▶ 23:52 Brendan Eich We encouraged people in open source, especially in Linux, to work on the code and send, you know, patches or get CVS commit rights.
▶ 29:37 Brendan Eich Open source at that point was still saying, oh, it works on Linux.
▶ 29:40 Brendan Eich Well, which flavor of Linux?
▶ 31:59 Brendan Eich He kind of made Safari because he knew how to make the KHTML engine web compatible, and it was from Linux, and it wasn't battle-tested in the field against mass market users, so it didn't load websites properly.

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