This curiosity is going around on the net and I did not want to let it be overlooked, for the simple fact that at least it leaves me a very clear message: Linux can be more dangerous than it sounds, for big software companies.
It turns out that in the year 2000, Linus Torvalds was invited by Steve Jobs to have a position within Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, whose objective was none other than to improve (I guess the Kernel) of what we now know as OS X. The only condition? To stop working on Linux.
I am particularly dying of wanting to know how the resounding DO NOT de Torvalds to Jobs and more knowing the characteristics of the controversial Finn. So I leave you a simple question, why would I want Steve Jobs which Linus will abandon the development of Linux? I leave it homework ..
Source: 9to5mac
It makes me want to ask him directly on his Google+ profile XD
Since you are, ask him what was the "no" of when he tried to sell Linux to Apple and Microsoft in the early 90's XD
We may not know. What can be known is the NO that Eric Raymond said to someone who wanted to recruit him for Microsoft
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=208
AOJJOAjaoJOA very good link xD
Very good answer by ESR, he ran them through the liner, LOL.
gguuuuaaaauuuuuuu OO you left me in shock with this note OOO.OOO
Why would Steve Jobs want Linus to abandon Linux development?
to end the competition 😀
Linux is the toughest Mac competition ejejeje
Rather than thinking about conspiracies, it seems to me that what I wanted is to have a full-time employee who is not distracted by personal projects. We go the normal that for that they were going to pay him.
Not like that ... well, what I do in my free time, whoever pays me cannot control me ... ¬_¬
First of all, I am not saying that all companies are equal, but it is customary to have exclusivity in employees.
Second, of course, I am not saying that you control "what you do in your free time" in the sense that in your free time you cannot go to the mountains, dedicate yourself to sculpture or play the saxophone, but your free time does not. dedicate yourself to the development of parallel projects related to the activities for which the company has hired you, since they are ideas and efforts that could well go to the project for which the company pays you and that may even come to the event that you compete with her.
If you were a company that, for example, hires an engineer to work on an engine, you will not be happy if he works on his engine "in his spare time"; It doesn't take a genius to know which one to reserve the best initiatives, dedication, etc. This activity "of his free time" attentive and dilutes the concentration with his work for the company.
As advice and personal experience I tell you that never, NEVER, hire someone to do a job while at the same time carrying out a personal project of the same type, even if it is a bricklayer (who in addition to you would be building his house for example ).
I don't think I would change anything, linus is only 1 ant inside the anthill that makes up the entire community of kernel developers
let me correct you: it is THE ANT inside the anthill
I do not share that criterion with you nonamed. It's true, Torvalds may be an ant inside an anthill, but let's not forget which one: La Reina, or well, in this case: The King.
hehehehe yes,