Congrats Linus Torvalds - you da man!
Ezekiel
<quote>
Linus Torvalds named one of the 100 most influential inventors
4 February 2010
The book "The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time", part of a series
from the Encyclopaedia Britannica titled "The Britannica Guide to the
World's Most Influential People", lists the top one hundred most important
and influential inventors since Cro-Magnon man. Linus Torvalds, creator and
chief architect of the Linux kernel, is listed among the IT innovators for
his contribution to open source software.
Other notable individuals listed in the book include Microsoft co-founder
Bill Gates, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Apple's co-founders
Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Burners-Lee,
and Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf, creators of the Transmission Control Protocol
(TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP).
</quote>
Chris Ahlstrom
> <quote>
> Linus Torvalds named one of the 100 most influential inventors
> 4 February 2010
>
> The book "The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time", part of a series
> from the Encyclopaedia Britannica titled "The Britannica Guide to the
> World's Most Influential People", lists the top one hundred most important
> and influential inventors since Cro-Magnon man.
So easy, a cave-man can do it!
> Linus Torvalds, creator and
> chief architect of the Linux kernel, is listed among the IT innovators for
> his contribution to open source software.
> </quote>
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linus-Torvalds-named-one-of-the-100-most-influential-inventors-922622.html
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Moshe Goldfarb
> <quote>
> Linus Torvalds named one of the 100 most influential inventors
> 4 February 2010
And rightfully so !!
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2/4/2010 4:14:39 PM
yuzgen
I wrote the original article and h-online.com made it theirs. This h-
online site should give credit to Linux Today or me.
First I submitted to Slashdot two days ago. Funny, submission is still
pending:
http://slashdot.org/~yuzgen/submissions
Even though I'm not a member, yesterday I decided to submit to Linux
Today and they published it:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2010020400335NWCY
The original article:
http://yuzgen.com/?p=117&lang=en
As an old usenet user, I chose to whine here. Writing news without
giving credit is wrong. No? Please enlighten me.
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linus-Torvalds-named-one-of-th...
Rex Ballard
> <quote>
> Linus Torvalds named one of the 100 most influential inventors
> 4 February 2010
> The book "The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time", part of a series
> from the Encyclopaedia Britannica titled "The Britannica Guide to the
> World's Most Influential People", lists the top one hundred most important
> and influential inventors since Cro-Magnon man. Linus Torvalds, creator and
> chief architect of the Linux kernel, is listed among the IT innovators for
> his contribution to open source software.
I'd really like to see the whole list. I'm not sure that I want to
spend $90 for an e-book though. Especially if you're not allowed to
cite the list in a BBS or newsgroup.
> Other notable individuals listed in the book include Microsoft co-founder
> Bill Gates, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Apple's co-founders
> Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Burners-Lee,
> and Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf, creators of the Transmission Control Protocol
> (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP).
> </quote>
I hope that Richard Stallman is there too.
Steve Wozniak made a computer that was practical and affordable.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen put PCs on millions of people's desks.
Steve Jobs made it easy to use.
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer gave us instructions on how to use it,
right where we needed them, resulting in nearly 1 billion PCs on
people's desks and laps.
Richard Stallman's emacs and infotex made it easy to navigate through
a complex network of documents.
Tim Berner's Lee gave us a way to address any file on any public
server, along with the application needed to view it.
Marc Andreeson made it possible to access all those files on all those
servers in a way that made it look like it was the PC doing it all.
Linus Torvalds gave us the technology that made servers so reliable
and secure, and put it on our desktops, laptops, and practically
everywhere else.
Let's not forget Kernigan and Ritchie, who eliminated the complexity
of having to no disk geometries, batch processing rules, and how to
get content out of a file in a useful way.
And then there's Bill Joy, who not only gave us the wires to connect
all those PCs (TCP/IP Sockets, FTP, Telnet, et al), but also showed us
that UNIX could be as pretty and easy to use as a Mac (Sun).
One person I'm pretty sure they overlooked was Nikolai Tesla. He not
only invented alternating current, the resonant circuit, and was the
real inventor of the radio, but he also wrote some very interesting
papers outlining nearly all of the technology we know and love today -
back before the start of World War I. He even predicted and described
the destructive uses of technology and suggested that, at some point,
robot warriors would make war nearly obsolete, since it would become a
case of who's robot was better than whose - this week.
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linus-Torvalds-named-one-of-th...
Rex Ballard
I was wrong, Tesla IS on the list.
Richard Stallman and Bill Joy are not.
> >http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linus-Torvalds-named-one-of-th...
Clogwog
news:9308c707-83c8-4776...@g1g2000yqi.googlegroups.com...
Probably because Richard Stallman eats toe jam?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
> >http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linus-Torvalds-named-one-of-th...
Mark Kent
> On Feb 4, 5:15 pm, Rex Ballard <rex.ball...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 4, 3:41 pm, "Ezekiel" <not-z...@the-zeke.com> wrote:
>
>> One person I'm pretty sure they overlooked was Nikolai Tesla. He not
>> only invented alternating current,
Err, Look up James Maxwell, and in particular, Faraday's equation, where
Faraday shows how a a *changing magnetic field* can induce an electric
field, which guess what... varies. But all the laws together describe
all you need to know.
This from Einstein:
The precise formulation of the time-space laws was the work of
Maxwell. Imagine his feelings when the differential equations he had
formulated proved to him that electromagnetic fields spread in the
form of polarised waves, and at the speed of light! To few men in
the world has such an experience been vouchsafed . . it took
physicists some decades to grasp the full significance of Maxwell's
discovery, so bold was the leap that his genius forced upon the
conceptions of his fellow-workers
—(Science, May 24, 1940)
Sorry, but alternating current was already known as the natural state of
things... it's not something which could've been invented, discovered,
perhaps, but it was discovered long-before Tesla's work. Maxwell was
doing this around the time Tesla was born.
Tesla did study the use of AC whilst at university in Austria, though.
What he patented, I believe, was 3-phase AC power generation and
distribution, which was an exceedingly smart idea.
> the resonant circuit, and was the
He worked on them, I didn't thinnk that anyone had the credit for
inventing them. Look up Oliver Heaviside. He's the reason why Maxwell's
equations are comprehensible, and why we have terms like impedance,
reluctance and so on...
Interestingly, Heaviside proposed using inductors loading to tune
transmission lines before anyone else had realised that you could tune
anything; also, he was directly related to the inventor of the telegraph,
a certain Mr Wheatstone. Heaviside is probably the inventor here, but
in principle, resonance is a feature of the universe. I rather think
that several people made important discoveries *about* resonance.
The first electromagnet was invented by Sturgeon.
>> real inventor of the radio, but he also wrote some very interesting
Leyden jar. Oh yeah, that would be Leyden... And the jar was resonant.
>> papers outlining nearly all of the technology we know and love today -
>> back before the start of World War I.
He was renowned for making sci-fi claims.
> He even predicted and described
>> the destructive uses of technology and suggested that, at some point,
>> robot warriors would make war nearly obsolete, since it would become a
>> case of who's robot was better than whose - this week.
He did some good work on robotics and He did some excellent work on
wireless power distribution and the skin effect. The first radio
transmissions were detected by Henry and Faraday, though, as magnetic
field variations.
>
> I was wrong, Tesla IS on the list.
He should be, he was quite brilliant, and highly influential. The unit
of the B-field is measured in his honour, the Tesla...
>
> Richard Stallman and Bill Joy are not.
>
>> >http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linus-Torvalds-named-one-of-th...
>
They will be, in due course. Richard Stallman's problem is that he
is more philosopher than inventor, here.
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