● 03.28.12

●● Apple Allegedly Tried to Kill Linux 12 Years Ago

Posted in Apple, GNU/Linux, Kernel at 4:45 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: The spiritual leader of Apple is accused of trying to “kill” Linux development (money with strings attached)

ONE OF our participants, Oiaohm, says that OSDL (now merged into the Linux Foundation) pays Linus Torvalds because he received some outrageous job offers that put in jeopardy the development (or coordination of development) of Linux. Steve Jobs, the man behind the vicious attack on Android, turns out to have been behind another blow against Linux:

Steve Jobs

man behind the vicious attack on Android

↺ turns out to have been behind another blow against Linux

> Apple Tried to Hire Linus Torvalds, Kill LinuxThe founder of Linux was invited to Apple HQ in Cupertino by Steve Jobs at the turn of the millennium, where is was invited to join Apple and work on (what would become) OS X.The lure? ‘Unix for the biggest user base’.The catch? That he would have to stop development on Linux, a condition that led Torvalds to flatly refuse the offer.Imagine: no Linux would have meant no Ubuntu, no ChromeOS, and no Android; the entire ecosystem of technology could have been dramatically changed by acceptance of this one job offer.

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