The Empire Strikes Back - We Just Need an Emperor
The immense success of Linux in the commercial space stems from many factors: its open source nature, extensibility, availability, lower cost, higher security - and the fact it has a Benevolent Dictat …
| Talk Title | The Empire Strikes Back - We Just Need an Emperor |
| Speakers | Igor Ljubuncic (Strategy and Business Consultant, Dedoimedo) |
| Conference | Open Source Summit Europe |
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| Location | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Date | Oct 21-27, 2017 |
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The immense success of Linux in the commercial space stems from many factors: its open source nature, extensibility, availability, lower cost, higher security - and the fact it has a Benevolent Dictator for Life, Linus Torvalds, at its helm. Not so can be said of Linux on the desktop. Yonder, Linux remains a stagnant player with a mere 1% market share, unable to break through in the same way it did in the server space. The presenter argues this is primarily due to its decentralized, community based nature. The desktop needs its own dictator. This session will explain why, in order to have more freedom, we need less.
