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The Linux Foundation’s five-quote roundup from its San Francisco Collaboration Summit captured a power-management challenge, an open-source prediction, a hardware milestone, a governance lesson and the Foundation’s broader mission. The summit took place on 15–17 April 2013, and the Foundation published the selection on 15 April 2013.
The five quotes
1. Linux and power-aware scheduling
“Linux is more efficient at doing nothing than anything else out there at this point.”
— Jon Corbet of LWN, discussing the Linux kernel’s power-aware scheduling problem in the Foundation’s framing.
2. Open source and ubiquitous software
“We have seen the last proprietary piece of software that achieves ubiquity. From now on everything starts from open source.”
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— John Mark Walker, identified in the article as Gluster Community manager at Red Hat. The line presents open source as the starting point for widely adopted software.
3. The Parallella hardware milestone
“It turns out my soldering skills stink, but I didn’t break it,”
— Andreas Olofsson, described as the inventor of the Parallella Linux supercomputer. He was talking about receiving the first boards from the manufacturer the previous Thursday. The Foundation described Parallella as a “$99 Linux supercomputer” in that 2013 article; that figure is historical, not a current price.
4. Open sourcing without giving up protected assets
“One of the most important things was the advice we got from The Linux Foundation. At the end we open sourced more than we thought we would and NYSE could still protect the assets they wanted to protect.”
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— Michael Schonberg, identified as Director of Market Data Engineering at Quincy Data and an openMAMA founder. His comment concerns joining the Linux Foundation as a collaborative project and balancing openness with the New York Stock Exchange’s protected assets.
5. Spreading Linux’s collaborative model
“It’s our mission to spread the collaborative DNA of Linux to other industries and projects.”
— Jim Zemlin, identified by the article as Linux Foundation executive director. This is the clearest statement of the Foundation’s ambition beyond the Linux project itself.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.What the selection shows
- Technical work: Corbet’s quote points to the difficulty of making a system use less power while idle.
- Software development: Walker’s prediction reflects the Foundation-era belief that open source would increasingly underpin ubiquitous software.
- Hardware experimentation: Olofsson’s remark gives the Parallella project a practical, hands-on dimension.
- Project governance: Schonberg’s experience illustrates that collaborative development does not require surrendering every proprietary asset.
- Institutional purpose: Zemlin frames collaboration as a model that can be applied well beyond Linux.
These quotations are reproduced from the Linux Foundation’s 2013 roundup. The published selection does not itself provide recordings or full transcripts for independently checking each line against the live delivery, so they are best treated as quotations as printed by the Foundation.
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