Product: 0066620732

The book is fun to read for the easy and informal style in which it is written. It is mostly about how Linux came about being what it is today. It is not about technical details of Linux, and the few technical things in there are very sketchy. The best part of the book is the honesty with which Linus describes everything.
Linus expresses his (decisive) opinions regarding a whole lot of stuff - Mach microkernel, Java, Netscape-Mozilla project, Apple+SteveJobs, Sun+BillJoy etc. These parts make the book much more interesting. The parts on Open Source philosophy, his employment in a closed source company and commercialization of Linux are very interesting and profound.
David’s contributions add chaos to the already discontinuos presentation by Linus and are at best skipped for later reading. David does shed some light on Linus’s personal life.
Rating: 4
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