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       How cool is Rob Landley??!
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       Compelling Speaker
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       Just recently I had the luck to stumble across a talk by Rob Landley.
       Not only that he's a compelling speaker. He appears to be a very nice
       person. He knows whole a lot about Unix and a lot of other topics.
       
       Just to name a few:
       
       - unix + unix history
       - linux/embedded linux
       - he has an informed opinion on open source liceses
       - he was maintainer of busybox
       - many more...
       
       Here's his talk that first catched me:
 (HTM) Building the Simplest Possible Linux System
       
       Minimalist (non-dogmatic)
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       A smile came to my face when I heard what he said about LinuxFromScratch:
       
           How to create a very large, very complicated about
           110 Megabytes System using conventional gnu packages.
           [...] it's the base of most OS versions. It's nothing
           remotely like the embedded world uses. I spent many
           years making it so that a Megabyte of change in Busybox
           could replace 100 Megabytes of gnu packages.
       
             - Rob in his talk: Building the Simplest Possible Linux System, at 01:18:16
       
       I also like the frugality in his html-Website:
 (HTM) landley.net
       (would love to see this as a gopherhole)
       
       Zero Clause BSD
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       In this other talk he compared his toybox with busybox.
       Toybox is a smaller and cleaner replacement for busybox.
       
 (HTM) Toybox vs. Busybox
       
       In this talk he also shared his definite opinion about licenses:
       How nasty it can be that some BSD, MIT- and ISC-Licenses demand
       you to carry them along.
       
       He explained the 0BSD-License which he prefers:
 (HTM) Zero Clause BSD
       
       I think he's right about this License.
       
       I became a fan
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       In case you find toybox interesting, there is an irc channel
       called #toybox on libera.chat.
       
       I'm looking forward to explore more of his talks, code, writings
       and his wisdom in general.
       
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         Cheers Rob, you rock!    C|====|
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                                   `----' hjw