Linus Torvalds: Open Source Is The Way To Combat Software Complexity

Posted by red5 on Sep 1, 2018 9:15 PM EDT
eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner
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At the Open Source Summit, Linus Torvalds the creator of Linux talks about the Linux development process, security challenges and why hardware performance declines are a good thing for software development.

Torvalds exchanged lively banter with Hohndel on a wide variety of topics ranging from the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, the state of hardware performance, the Linux development process and the future of Linux, without Torvalds.

"What I really worry about is the flow of patches and the workflow is more important than the code," Torvalds said. "If you have the right worklfow, code will sort itself out and if a bug happens, we know how to deal with it."

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