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> The community that emerged from the wide collaboration on Linux was a loosely governed structure over which Torvalds watched as a benevolent dictator and moral authority.
> This scale of collaboration was possible because of the Internet, much as Licklider and Roberts had envisaged in 1968 when they mooted that the <q>interconnection of separate communities</q> would <q>make available to all the members of all the communities the programs and data resources of the entire super community</q> The community that emerged from the wide collaboration on Linux was a loosely governed structure over which Torvalds watched as benevolent dictator and moral authority. His lieutenants have ownership of parts of the project.
They are, he claims, selected by the community according to merit:
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> > The programmers are very good at selecting leaders. There's no process for making somebody a lieutenant. But somebody who gets things done, shows good taste, and has good qualities - people just start sending them suggestions and patches. I didn't design it this way. This happens because this is the way people work. It's very natural. 33
> He, however, maintains approval over final decisions on major new modifications to Linux and acts as a coordinator. Alerting readers to the advent of open-source in 2003, Wired published a feature on the phenomenon that delivered the message in no uncertain terms: <q>Open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production</q>. The involvement of such a large community of developers in proposing, testing and refining contributions to Linux made the system adaptable but solid.
https://youtu.be/fs-YpQj88ew
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page 118: Google's initial focus was on **back links**. PageRank, **Freedom to seek** at page 119. <q>googol</q>: Google's success and effectiveness is based on massive amount of data, centralized, processed, inspected, **ranked**:
> The enormity of the googol, according to Google, <q>reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the Web</q>.
> The enormity of the googol, according to Google, <q>reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the Web</q>.
As [[A History of the Internet and its future|in the early days of the World Wide Web]], we should return to the concept of a browser as a software that not only browses the web, but it makes it easy for anyone to create a basic website. Something like an universal profile and identity page, not necessarily a personal website, not a social media profile.
As [[A History of the Internet and the digital future|in the early days of the World Wide Web]], we should return to the concept of a browser as a software that not only browses the web, but it makes it easy for anyone to create a basic website. Something like an universal profile and identity page, not necessarily a personal website, not a social media profile.
