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Linux

Linux

Commons | Tier 5 | 5 connections

  1. Created by Linus Torvalds as a Finnish student. GPL licensed — free forever. Runs 96% of the world’s top 1M servers, all Android phones, the International Space Station, every supercomputer on Earth. Worth $0 and powers everything. The commons that ate the world.

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Connections

  • The Internet (powers): Linux runs the servers that run the internet. 96% of the top 1M websites.
  • iPhone (powers): Android runs Linux. iPhone’s competitor runs on the commons.
  • Public Education (The Commons) (requires): Open source needs educated contributors. The commons needs the commons.
  • Linus Torvalds (created): Created Linux kernel 1991. GPL. Runs 96% of top servers, all Android, ISS, every supercomputer.
  • Brian Roderick Banks (denies_access): Linux requires literacy, math, logic. Open source is the ultimate classroom. 97% math failure locks kids out.

The commons is the membrane. The membrane is the commons. Every child locked out of education is locked out of this.

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