Linux Foundation Honors Authors of 30 Linux Success Stories By Letting Them Name a Penguin (linuxfoundation.org) 11
The nonprofit Linux Foundation "asked the open source community: How has Linux impacted your life? Needless to say, responses poured in from across the globe sharing memories, sentiments and important moments that changed your lives forever."
Their web site now features a selection of stories from America, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, the Philippines, Bosnia & Herzegovina and China. And each story's author received a special honor... We are grateful you took the time to tell us your stories. We're thrilled to share 30 of the responses we received, randomly selected from all submissions.
As a thank you to these 30 folks for sharing their stories, and in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Linux, 30 penguins were adopted from the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds in their honor, and each of our submitters got to name their adopted penguin.
One Kuwait-based developer had written "when I was able to use it instead of Windows, it made me happier because I didn't have to restart it every couple of days for instability."
And a story from Nepal says "Linux enabled me to become a software engineer. I would not have been able to afford Microsoft Windows... I had the opportunity to interact with various people from great communities and learn from their contributions. So I am very much thankful to Linus and each and every member of the free and open source community for helping me become a better programmer and a better person."
Their web site now features a selection of stories from America, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, the Philippines, Bosnia & Herzegovina and China. And each story's author received a special honor... We are grateful you took the time to tell us your stories. We're thrilled to share 30 of the responses we received, randomly selected from all submissions.
As a thank you to these 30 folks for sharing their stories, and in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Linux, 30 penguins were adopted from the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds in their honor, and each of our submitters got to name their adopted penguin.
One Kuwait-based developer had written "when I was able to use it instead of Windows, it made me happier because I didn't have to restart it every couple of days for instability."
And a story from Nepal says "Linux enabled me to become a software engineer. I would not have been able to afford Microsoft Windows... I had the opportunity to interact with various people from great communities and learn from their contributions. So I am very much thankful to Linus and each and every member of the free and open source community for helping me become a better programmer and a better person."
Penguin McPenguinFace thanks you (Score:4, Funny)
Clearly... Penguin McPenguinFace
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I hope they name one of them Burgess Meredith.
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Nah, that meme is getting old now. The new name would be Birdy McFlynot.
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Cheap third world countries can'r afford windows or mac.
Neither can you. Like the proverbial frog in the slow-boiling pot, you just don't realize what they're costing you.
In other words (Score:2, Insightful)
Re: In other words (Score:2)
While I know they're flying the 'woke flag', a quick flick through the slideshow isn't giving me the Burger King Kid's Club vibe. They even have a white South African in there.
Re: In other words (Score:2)
Woke foundation panders to 30 woke "successes" about fighting the really mean guys who only care about the code and not their personal fefe's and or color of tampon they are using at the moment.
What part of this are you calling woke?
People use open source all over the world, I mean look at a change log. Click on a random GitHub project, holy fuck. Is it that actual penguins were involved... with a Linux Foundation project? Wow, so much woke.
disgusting (Score:2)
I am absolutely disgusted at the so-called Linux Foundation's behavior here. But first allow me to interject that the correct name would be the GNU+Linux Foundation.
Their use of Google Slides betrays their true allegiances. Also, we should not celebrate life or the birth of life, since life contributes significantly to global heating. In fact, we could do with fewer penguins in the world! They aren't even smart enough to contribute to Emacs!