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It’s been a long time since I published a blog of my travels. Unfortunately, all the old blogs are lost forever, the victim of a flooded basement in 2002.
However, I leave for Zurich, Switzerland this Sunday for two weeks. It’s a fairly heavily scheduled business trip, and I might have one day to look around. But I’ll comment on the trip here.
Thirty years ago, Bill Gates wrote a letter to the Homebrew Computer Club, accusing them of theft. In this letter, Bill asks:
What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?
Thirty years later, he has his answer:
- Linus Torvalds and another couple hundred
– Andrew Tridgell and another couple dozen
– Larry Wall and another couple thousand
– Marc Andreessen and who knows how many
– Repeat for several thousand other open source projects…