Linux, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year 2025 anyone Ben Gilbert 9David Rosenthal 8Steve Ballmer 6Brendan Eich 5
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Linux comes up
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 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.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:17:53 David Rosenthal Yeah, the open source Linux company.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 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.