Keith Curtis
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Keith Cary Curtis is the core collaborator at Open Source Council, who wrote a book After the Software Wars
and now making a film Software Wars about inevitable global dominance of Linux Kernel
. He is an American programmer lives in Seattle and popular in India
, who worked for Microsoft
before to become an open source
advocate.
after meeting Bill Gates
to work as a programmer for Microsoft
in 1993. There he worked for 11 years contributing codes to everything they sell as patented software. He opted out upon realizing that science
and mathematics
can not remain scientific because of patenting. He left Microsoft and wrote a book "After the Software Wars
" explaining the caliber of free and open source software
and why Linux
is technically superior to any other proprietary operating system
.
His book reached up to top political echelons in India. In 2009 just after reading his book, Indian political veteran Rajendra Kumar –a close confidant of many Prime Ministers in India who foretold for US bankruptcy a decade in advance of its occurrence, said downright that only workable move left for America, is to elect Keith Curtis US President as only he has the way through upcoming US crisis.
At the same time Shardul Pandey was writing Open Source Book decoding dominant web technologies. Unlike every other programmer both of them were not averse to politics but considered their passion as post-politics. They befriended each-other and together became core collaborators at Open Source Council that has come up with a Free Education Policy.
Keith debated with Linux Kernel developers insisting on adopting GC Lingua Franca for following a zero-bug religion in programming Linux.
His book "After the Software Wars
" is being converted in to a documentary "Software Wars" which is expected for release in 2012 featuring the creator of Linux
Linus Torvalds
at the core of emerging world order.
After the Software Wars
After the Software Wars is a book by Keith Curtis about free software and its importance in the computing industry, specifically about its impact on Microsoft and the proprietary software development model....
and now making a film Software Wars about inevitable global dominance of Linux Kernel
Linux kernel
The Linux kernel is an operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems. It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software....
. He is an American programmer lives in Seattle and popular in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, who worked for Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
before to become an open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
advocate.
Biography
Keith dropped out of University of MichiganUniversity of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
after meeting Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...
to work as a programmer for Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
in 1993. There he worked for 11 years contributing codes to everything they sell as patented software. He opted out upon realizing that science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
can not remain scientific because of patenting. He left Microsoft and wrote a book "After the Software Wars
After the Software Wars
After the Software Wars is a book by Keith Curtis about free software and its importance in the computing industry, specifically about its impact on Microsoft and the proprietary software development model....
" explaining the caliber of free and open source software
Free and open source software
Free and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...
and why Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
is technically superior to any other proprietary operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
.
His book reached up to top political echelons in India. In 2009 just after reading his book, Indian political veteran Rajendra Kumar –a close confidant of many Prime Ministers in India who foretold for US bankruptcy a decade in advance of its occurrence, said downright that only workable move left for America, is to elect Keith Curtis US President as only he has the way through upcoming US crisis.
At the same time Shardul Pandey was writing Open Source Book decoding dominant web technologies. Unlike every other programmer both of them were not averse to politics but considered their passion as post-politics. They befriended each-other and together became core collaborators at Open Source Council that has come up with a Free Education Policy.
Keith debated with Linux Kernel developers insisting on adopting GC Lingua Franca for following a zero-bug religion in programming Linux.
His book "After the Software Wars
After the Software Wars
After the Software Wars is a book by Keith Curtis about free software and its importance in the computing industry, specifically about its impact on Microsoft and the proprietary software development model....
" is being converted in to a documentary "Software Wars" which is expected for release in 2012 featuring the creator of Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator...
at the core of emerging world order.
External links
- Conversation with Ray Kurzweil.
- A Microsoft Veteran Embraces Open Source- New York Times
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt_Y4pSdsHw/Linus TorvaldsLinus TorvaldsLinus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator...
raw audio for documentary "Software Wars" by Keith Curtis] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYLe-gN8I-w&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL/Jono BaconJono BaconJono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California...
's raw video for documentary "Software Wars" by Keith Curtis] - Raw audio, video and images from the movie Software Wars directed by Keith Curtis
- An interview
- Personal Website
- Keith Curtis at Open Knowledge Campus
- Facebook profile
- Twitter profile
- http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.391633/darfor-bor-inte-apache-ta-over-openofficeHis comments on Apache's takeover to Open OfficeOpen officeOpen office may refer to:* OpenOffice.org, a free and open source suite of office productivity programs .* OpenOffice.org XML, a deprecated international file format used by earlier versions of OpenOffice.org....
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