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Какво общо има това с Linux
In the Beginning was the Command Line
by Neal Stephenson
"...Credit for Linux generally goes to its human namesake, one Linus
Torvalds, a Finn who got the whole thing rolling in 1991 when he used some of
the GNU tools to write the beginnings of a Unix kernel that could run on
PC-compatible hardware. And indeed Torvalds deserves all the credit he has ever
gotten, and a whole lot more. But he could not have made it happen by himself,
any more than Richard Stallman could have. To write code at all, Torvalds had to
have cheap but powerful development tools, and these he got from Stallman's GNU
project.
And he had to have cheap hardware on which to write that code. Cheap hardware is
a much harder thing to arrange than cheap software; a single person (Stallman)
can write software and put it up on the Net for free, but in order to make
hardware it's necessary to have a whole industrial infrastructure, which is not
cheap by any stretch of the imagination. Really the only way to make hardware
cheap is to punch out an incredible number of copies of it, so that the unit
cost eventually drops. For reasons already explained, Apple had no desire to see
the cost of hardware drop. The only reason Torvalds had cheap hardware was
Microsoft.
Microsoft refused to go into the hardware business, insisted on making its
software run on hardware that anyone could build, and thereby created the market
conditions that allowed hardware prices to plummet. In trying to understand the
Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not to a single innovator but to a sort
of bizarre Trinity: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away
any of these three and Linux would not exist...."
by Neal Stephenson
"...Credit for Linux generally goes to its human namesake, one Linus
Torvalds, a Finn who got the whole thing rolling in 1991 when he used some of
the GNU tools to write the beginnings of a Unix kernel that could run on
PC-compatible hardware. And indeed Torvalds deserves all the credit he has ever
gotten, and a whole lot more. But he could not have made it happen by himself,
any more than Richard Stallman could have. To write code at all, Torvalds had to
have cheap but powerful development tools, and these he got from Stallman's GNU
project.
And he had to have cheap hardware on which to write that code. Cheap hardware is
a much harder thing to arrange than cheap software; a single person (Stallman)
can write software and put it up on the Net for free, but in order to make
hardware it's necessary to have a whole industrial infrastructure, which is not
cheap by any stretch of the imagination. Really the only way to make hardware
cheap is to punch out an incredible number of copies of it, so that the unit
cost eventually drops. For reasons already explained, Apple had no desire to see
the cost of hardware drop. The only reason Torvalds had cheap hardware was
Microsoft.
Microsoft refused to go into the hardware business, insisted on making its
software run on hardware that anyone could build, and thereby created the market
conditions that allowed hardware prices to plummet. In trying to understand the
Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not to a single innovator but to a sort
of bizarre Trinity: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away
any of these three and Linux would not exist...."