Stallman receiving Torvalds award at LinuxWorld conf 1999

This guy is my god.

By the way, when Linus made Linux he had just 1 year of C programming experience...

Really?? That makes me feel like crap...

Ye, but he didn't learned C++ like we learn now, just to make applications, he learned C++ Operating System programming. We learn how to use Libraries, but he was learning how to work with the registers of the processor and that kind of things.

u mean C right?

btw read the awnser i gave the guy above

What do u mean about "We learn how to use libraries" who is we, im studing to be a computer engenieer and i learn about computer registers and processor, but that shit is hard (we made a exam about that the other day and 272 out of 300 FAILED)

Ye, I meant application programmers... By the way Assembly is awesome! I learn to be an application programmer, that sh*t is too easy, especially C Builder... My father is an Assembly programmer for 28 years and I really like all the awesome things that u can do with it... Hate it? Later u will love it! Maybe...

dude ur dad is a beast aseembly might have some crazy results but i stick with java and c++ i let the assembly for others :P

u are problably using C# or C sharp thats diferent from C.

C++ and C# has classes they are Object Oriented, C is modular when linus learnd C they still used modular system (im guesing) and that si way easyer to understand how to make a SO cause in mudular programation u are very close to the machine, almoust like a really easy to write assembly

programing in assembly thats the real bitch i absolutly hate that.

OOP pwns

Linus said that without GNU Complier the Linux existence was not real, but to call GNU/Linux, I don't think so. GNU started in 1984 they had so much time to make a kernel and there was a team but Linus in 6 months alone made the Kernel, that's the real programmer... U can't call it GNU/Linux, Linus made it alone! U can replace "GNU" with "Linux", that's better... because GNU now use almost just Linux Kernel...

Here is a gem in this video: "Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is sort of like giving the Han Solo Award to the rebel fleet".
I agree with him. Indeed, Torvalds could have been given a Free Software Foundation Award when he decided to release the Linux Kernel under the GNU license.