Linux, every mention
9 scenes (2022) · ← back to Linux
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2022 anyone Ben Gilbert 9David Rosenthal 8Steve Ballmer 6Brendan Eich 5
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Linux comes up
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 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…
Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:26:45 David Rosenthal No more than they could go to Linux, download open source software and run a multi-billion dollar
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 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.