e-children

We’ve discussed the e-children, those 75 million people who never (or almost never) knew an unwired world.  Once called Generation X, Generation Y or the Millenials, e-children are the people your business model needs to understand and engage, in short because they are better equipped than your organization is to communicate and collaborate, to generate and recognize value from intellectual property.

The origin of the e-children as a force in technology – and therefore business – begins with a single message from a man named Linus Benedict Torvalds sent August 25, 1991.  It reads:

” Hello everybody out there using minix -

I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, and I’d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them

Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

When Torvalds, a Finnish programmer and user of the UNIX variant called Minix, sent the above to a group of Minix users, he started a reversal of the classic relationship of customer to vendor that your business is now dealing with every day.

Torvalds and his group began to build Linux, and in doing so, changed forever the enterprise computing landscape in a fundamental way.  He did this by racing ahead of every UNIX vendor to a vision of a free operating system technologically worthy of running everything from banking to nuclear safety to airline reservations.   Then, he organized the team to build it.

This is what e-children do: they see a need, and they build what it takes to fill that need, self-organizing along the way.

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His “business plan”?

1) Hack a $40 Wii remote
2) Write controller software
3) Give it away
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