interesting ted talk by linus torvalds: his story of linux first steps is fascinating – in the second part linus talks about the difference between people, starting from the difference between developers and commercial: here the transcript
“What I’m trying to say is we are different. I’m not a people person; it’s not something I’m particularly proud of, but it’s part of me. And one of the things I really like about open source is it really allows different people to work together. We don’t have to like each other — and sometimes we really don’t like each other. Really — I mean, there are very, very heated arguments. But you can, actually, you can find things that — you don’t even agree to disagree, it’s just that you’re interested in really different things.”
“And coming back to the point where I said earlier that I was afraid of commercial people taking advantage of your work,it turned out, and very quickly turned out, that those commercial people were lovely, lovely people. And they did all the things that I was not at all interested in doing, and they had completely different goals. And they used open source in ways that I just did not want to go. But because it was open source they could do it, and it actually works really beautifully together.”
And I actually think it works the same way. You need to have the people-people, the communicators,the “warm and friendly people who like (Laughter) really want to hug you and get you into the community. But that’s not everybody. And that’s not me. I care about the technology. There are people who care about the UI. I can’t do UI to save my life. I mean, if I was stranded on an island and the only way to get off that island was the make a pretty UI, I’d die there.”
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Sono perfettamente d’accordo, soprattutto quando affermi: “Io non sono una persona socievole; non è qualcosa di cui sono particolarmente fiero, ma è parte di me. E una delle cose che mi piace davvero dell’open-source è che permette davvero a persone diverse di lavorare insieme. Non è necessario che ci piacciamo – e a volte non ci piacciamo proprio. Davvero, voglio dire, ci sono grosse discussioni. Ma in realtà non si tratta nemmeno di accordo o disaccordo, è solo che siamo interessati a cose molto diverse”