Linux OSSNA'24
Last week I attended the Linux Foundation Open Software Summit North America (OSSNA). The TLA+ Conference (which I wrote about here) was colocated with Linux OSSNA as a pre-conference event, and having made the continental cross, it made sense to stay for the first two days of OSSNA. Linus Torvalds would speak on day 2, and there were several sessions about different aspects of Linux ecosystem. I had read that in one of the previous years 3000 people attended OSSNA, so it seemed like a good opportunity to learn about current state of the opensource ecosystem. The embedded opensource summit was also colocated with this event as well. So how bad could that be? It was pretty bad. I regretted staying for the conference. It was nice seeing Linus speak live, and I checked that out of my nerd bucket list, but otherwise this was an underwhelming and boring two days. I will be whining a bit in the next couple pages, before I share you my notes from the Linus session. But you may l...