If you were to build linux again, what would be the one most important thing you would do differently
This was answered in the previous Q&A session, as linked in the summary, unless you think the answer would have changed in the last few years:
What would you have done differently? by Rob Kaper
It's been over twenty years since the inception of Linux. With 20/20 hindsight, what you have done differently if you had had today's knowledge and experience back in the early days?
Linus: I get asked this quite often, and I really don't see how I could possibly have done anything better. And I'm not claiming some kind of great forethought - it's just that with 20:20 hindsight, I really did choose the right big things. I still love the GPLv2, and absolutely think that making Linux open source was the greatest thing ever.
Have I made mistakes? Sure. But on the whole, I think Linux has done incredibly well, and I've made the right decisions around it (and the big things have *occasionally* been about technical issues, but more often about non-technical things like "Don't work for a commercial Linux company even if it seems like such a natural thing to do - keep working in a neutral place so that people can continue to work with me")
If you were to do Linux again ... (Score:5, Interesting)
If you were to build linux again, what would be the one most important thing you would do differently
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If you were to build linux again, what would be the one most important thing you would do differently
This was answered in the previous Q&A session, as linked in the summary, unless you think the answer would have changed in the last few years:
What would you have done differently?
by Rob Kaper
It's been over twenty years since the inception of Linux. With 20/20 hindsight, what you have done differently if you had had today's knowledge and experience back in the early days?
Linus: I get asked this quite often, and I really don't see how I could possibly have done anything better. And I'm not claiming some kind of great forethought - it's just that with 20:20 hindsight, I really did choose the right big things. I still love the GPLv2, and absolutely think that making Linux open source was the greatest thing ever.
Have I made mistakes? Sure. But on the whole, I think Linux has done incredibly well, and I've made the right decisions around it (and the big things have *occasionally* been about technical issues, but more often about non-technical things like "Don't work for a commercial Linux company even if it seems like such a natural thing to do - keep working in a neutral place so that people can continue to work with me")
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Basically Linus' ego is so big he doesn't think anything could have been done differently.
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Keep apologising.