Talking about innovation in terms of a "technical operating system" is missing the forest for the trees. By any measure no current operating system is innovative - perhaps the very first operating system was innovative. After all nothing has changed - we are still typing with keyboards -- yeah there maybe touchscreens but we are still using the same fingers for keyboard like actions -- whats so innovative about that ? In the same vein claiming USB as an innovation is silly -- since its just a better serial port in many practical ways. I can go on ... But the point is and was well made by Isaac Newton when asked about his innovative ideas : "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." . That is how every "innovation" has been built. Now coming to the Linux innovation. Its not the "Operating System" that is innovative -- after all what does it do differently from a myriad of other operating systems ? The innovation in Linux was not the OS itself but the "Social" element of it as a result of its community based licensing model. It brought a complex (and expensive) operating system within reach of everyone, whether they were university students or someone building a super-computer or someone looking for a suitable environment to power a new device - they all could open the hood and tinker with it. It brought all these different people together and made them communicate via their shared contributions. Which is why you have tremendous growth around the linux ecosystem and you find it adopted by things as diverse as a lowly Kindle ebook reader all the way up the chain to a Cray supercomputer. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:28 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
And in grand conclusion of this thread, according to the Revolution OS video (23:48 onwards in the video---Thnks @Lenya,wish you had shared this video earlier, am certain this thread would not have reached 100+) , the initial inspiration for Linus was propreitary SunOS that was running at the university. His inspiration was to replicate something similar on his computer for personal use, thus explaining the Unix-Like similarities. For me, this thread completely ends here. Nothing else to write...
Gd day. :-)
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