My point is, he didn't wait to form an organisation charged with coding a new OS,or a venture capitalist or regulation. He just started where he was with what he had...the rest as they say is history.

 

Passion and commerce are actually tied together for most succesful internet businesses....

 

Facebook; just a bunch of campus kids sharing social info (their passion)

Youtube; just a bunch of campus kids sharing videos (their passion)

Linux; Just a coder trying to get a more stable OS for his own purposes (gaming?).

 

These guys cared enough about something to try and fix it. The commerce aspect came later and they mostly had to hire the finance types to help them monetise something they were already doing.....

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:18 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:

@John Doe, please don't confuse passion and commerce. Did you know the story behind Linus = culture of the early 1990's, anti-commercialism, driven by the urge to stop the $$$ effects of commercial software industry. Infact, I believe at that time anti-commercialism was the basis of Open Source. Many in that era felt like this, and came together. Such still exist, but now you find them rioting during G8 summits etc, Green Peace, Stop the Whaling in japanese waters etc. Would Linus have wriiten a mass mailing list platform, I hardly think so.

 

Lets try a find a good example, and maybe we can agree.

 

Asante. :-)

 

 

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:08 PM, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:

 

I'm just wondering, how did Linus Torvalds go about inventing the best thing since sliced bread? At the iHUB? With a VC behind him?

 

IMHO, it all boils down to do you want it bad enough??? All you need is a forum to tap into other genius minds....

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