Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds [Full-length]

Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds, hosted by Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) in Otaniemi on June 14, 2012. Linus was interviewed by Will Cardwell and followed with a Q&A session with the audience. Enjoy!

Event producer Zaira Mammadova ( @iamzaira )

Video produced by Oneminstory {http://www.oneminstory.com/en}

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[Adrian Jacobi]

‎"I like offending people because I think people that get offended should be offended" - Linus Torvalds

how beautiful!

[Michael Pohoreski]

0:20:40 Do you follow development of any new programming languages? Do you see any other languages aside from C suitable for OS dev?

0:23:43 Why has Linux never been competitive at the desktop level?

0:27:13 You see yourself as a technical person; growing must had to deal with a lot business related things?

0:28:05 When you were developing Linux you started it as a project but as the OS grew your perspective changed about the OS. How long did take to change your perspective to your current one?

[gravisan]

the walls look like a massive prototyping board

[OriginalFoxBox]

support from NVidia bye bye

[Gilliam Flebus]

Wanted to comment the same thing :D, that quote is fucking awesome!

[Gilliam Flebus]

0:50:0 Nvidia, fuck you!

[LuosPhantom]

That would be the adware subtlety trying to get you to buy windows...

[threeto1]

0:26 I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 and I hear a random Windows Vista/7 sound xDDD

[mehnesh]

Nvidia FUCK YOU

[Acid113377]

the interviewer seems like such a dick

[Ryan Beltz]

Nivida fuck you

[FlyinLulz]

Very good talk