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Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is the keynote reported on a while ago in a ZDNet article and discussed here on Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The title assumes we know this Dirk guy, but might not have heard of Linus...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

I was curious, in case anybody else doesn't know who Dirk Hohndel is:

Currently works as Head of the Open Source Program Office at Verizon
Formerly VMware’s Chief Open Source Officer
Formerly spent almost 15 years as Intel’s Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist
Formerly Chief Technology Officer of SuSE and Unix Architect of Deutsche Bank
Developer and contributor in Linux and open source since the early 1990s. He was one of the early Linux kernel developers and has contributed to several dozen open source projects over the years.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Linus plays the piano in Charlie Brown, right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Nah. He's that Youtube dude.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I can see how one might interpret it that way, but it could also be that Linus is important and deserves introduction, where this other Dirk guy just serves as facilitator and so doesn't warrant introduction.