Linux

“Obviously Lee Chess exists today. They're kind of the, I would say the Linux of you know, they exist for a really important reason. It's great for the community. It's open source.”

“Turned out there were about a quarter million live keys. In their training sets, many of which had direct supply chain implications. There was a foundational Linux library that one of the keys had direct push access to. It could have pushed malware to most mac…”

“In a lot of ways, open claw to me was very Linux moment to me. And now everybody can build their own AI.”

“And the misconception that I had, and I think a lot of people in the Linux world have had, if we just make it as close to Windows or Mac as possible, then they'll come. But no, they won't. Why would you want, again, the Timo version of Mac or of Windows? I don…”

“There's no difference between an app that's built on Linux or an app that's built on iOS. Like these are just apps.”

“And OpenClaw became the fastest growing GitHub project on GitHub. Like, you look at Linux, it surpassed Linux, it surpassed React in a few weeks, right?”

“And from, if anyone in Apple is listening, I very much feel that they are shooting itself in the foot of the scale of the revenue of compute or licensing they could get if they would just enable A concurrency model similar to what you can get on a Windows and …”

“Hyperagent, It's just much more of, like, the Macintosh experience, right, versus the Linux.”

“But this is a good problem to have because when, ah, I really think that, you know, OpenClaw is like Linux. And I agree with Jensen Huang that when Linus Torvalds introduced Linux on the mailing list, he said, I have this toy kernel. Totally not for production…”

“It's the fastest growing open source project in history. If you look at the chart, it's just like absurd, like more than Linux.”

“So we currently run like a, we currently run like a lightweight VM and we put clock code into the VM and we do that for a number of reasons. Safety and security is a big one, but even if you ignore for a second safety and security and you're just like, okay, Y…”

“If I hadn't had that experience, would I build my own Linux distribution that is now used by tens of thousands of people? Would I have discovered this wonderful new world of the Linux operating system, of Hyperland, of Arch, of mechanical keyboards, and all th…”

“So now it's, I think, number one GitHub stars of all time. It passed React, it passed Linux.”

“It's sort of like, You know, a stalking horse, another, another animal based analogy, but it's sort of a stalking horse for like, Hey Gemini and anthropic. Like if you guys don't lower your prices, we will go to the open source option. And that's sort of what …”

“The way, ah, software engineering agents are trained today is they're trained on standard Linux environment. They need to be able to use the shell, they need to be able to write to files, read files, ah, but they also need to be able to install packages, eithe…”

“I think Linux wouldn't exist if we'd open-sourced Solaris x-eighty-six early, and that would have been a tremendous transformation, because there was a lot of amazing things in Solaris.”

“In the internet age, all the startups began with Oracle and Sun. And eventually they all moved to Linux and MySQL. And so there was a, we got to win it all cost phase. And then there was a phase where you started worrying about cost and optimization. And so on…”

“Almost every single major open source company has had a giant, ah, institutional backer. IBM was the biggest funder of Linux in the nineties as a counterbalance to Microsoft. And the biggest funders of all the open source browsers are Apple and Google with Web…”

“I actually had a whole design lab. We laid out a board. We found a software company in Boston to do, to Linux-based software for us. I found the chip supplier. Put a CPU in the TV and connect it to the internet. And when you turn on that TV, first page was app…”

“And if you fast forward like 50 or a hundred years, I do believe that the utility of proprietary software eventually approaches zero. So like when we're sending people to Mars, the operating system of the rockets and the devices and everything like that is not…”

“Linux has switching costs, and I think what we've discovered is LLMs have no switching costs whatsoever.”

“AMD works horribly on Windows. Like, on Linux, it works fine. It's lower than the price equivalent NVIDIA GPU. But it works, like, you can use it, generate images, everything works. On Linux, on Windows, You might have a hard time”

“I think what Meta and Mark are doing is very smart, right? Which is in some sense, he's trying to commoditize even his complement, right? It makes a ton of sense to me. If I were in his shoes, I would do that, right? Which is get the entire world converged. I …”

“We actually have implemented ourselves a lot of the functionality you would get in an operating system. So we're running our own networking stack, we're running our own IO stack, we're running our own scheduler. So we can run alongside Linux, but we've actuall…”

“Lama, Lama three, like the stuff Meta is doing great models, great engineers, really cool stuff. But it's not open source the way Linux is open source. It's not open source the way, you know, I don't know, like Wikipedia's contributions are open source in that…”

“The reason to make it IP free, Is to get everyone working on the same platform, to remove single source dependency risk, and to get the utilities confidence that this thing's gonna be successful, and gonna go forward, and to get everyone behind it. So do the L…”

“Azure is a Linux-first cloud, as opposed to a Windows Server-first cloud, right?”

“And Linux in part was very much sponsored by IBM throughout the late nineties to the tune of in some years, a billion dollars a year.”

“Windows was popular at that time. So people ran their, you know, data centers on windows and networks on windows. And this Linux thing was like very strange and people didn't really know what it was.”

“I mean, it ended up being a backpack that had all this equipment, you know, a video encoder that would encode a video stream. And digitize it. And then some software that ran, ran on a small Linux computer that would take that video stream and dynamically allo…”

“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 run on Linux and run …”

“I think the internet has kind of always had some version of what a DAO is. Like, I grew up in the open source world, right? And you always had this kind of, you know, BDFLs, these benevolent dictators for life, like Puedo for Python and Linux for Linux. And th…”

“We talked with Vitalik, he talked about when he was in high school, he and one of his friends started what he called a mini Hack Club at his high school. And that was the first place he learned about Linux, which completely changed his life.”

“So Linux failed completely. As a consumer product, open source failed completely at creating consumer products.”

“If everything was on one box, you could maybe shave that latency down from 10 milliseconds down to one millisecond or so, and, you know, you could have a competitive system.”

“Right on schedule we get the arrival of a new open technology, which are blockchains that directly challenge The proprietary data business model, just as the internet and Linux challenged the proprietary software and distribution business model.”

“The fact that it's open, and anyone can take it, and hack it, and fork it, and look at it, and audit it, and do all these things, like, this is why Linux won, right? And this is why all this stuff is going to win.”

“Red Hat kinda got lucky and find a commoditizing change, which was Unix to Linux. That's an rare event to have a major, you know, chip system re platforming see change.”

“If you could have invested in something that, that, that had some correlation to the adoption of Linux, it would have been one of the all-time great investments.”

“If you look at traditionally things that have gotten a lot of developer interest like Linux or Android or whatever it sometimes takes five years or 10 years, but they eventually end up being massive platforms.”

“We're seeing this tectonic shift right now in data centers from Windows over to Linux.”

“Containers use far less compute resources there. You know, it used to be where I had to support Windows and Linux on a machine, therefore virtual machines are important. Now it's only Linux on both sides. Linux as the base operating system and running within t…”

“Linux is so, people don't understand, some people don't understand, it's so thoroughly one.”

“All the things about power management and security and reliability this whole sealed case notion of the phone and the tablet OS's, these modern OS's, these are huge, huge benefits. And there, there's no way of sort of retroactively adding those to the existing…”

“Mac had more share of web servers than Linux, and the World Wide Web was three percent of internet traffic.”

“And what's interesting is in, in neither of those two worlds, at least historically, like pre-crypto, has much of the value that those open source contribute been captured.”

“We had done the early work that got Gates and Bomber focused on Google as a threat to the business, and at the time, back then, they were more focused on the enterprise side and on the threat that Linux kind of represented, and so we had gotten the company pre…”

“Actually the way that we selected the game was we went on, on Twitch and just looked down the list of most popular games in the world and starting, you know, number one is League of Legends. The thing about League of Legends is it doesn't run on Linux and it d…”

“The thing about League of Legends is it doesn't run on Linux and it doesn't have a game API and little things like that actually are the biggest barrier to making AI progress in a lot of ways.”

“And it was just the sequence where we flashed like a frame of a piece, like a bunch of different screens, like crash screens of like a Linux system crashing. And if you found the right character on each of those screens in order, it would lead you to another U…”