Just for Fun is an autobiography of Linus torvalds, the creator of Linux, a successful operating system. The reason for the popularity of the OS has more to do with the way in which it was created, OPEN SOURCE.A new term was coined, thanks to Linux and subsequently influenced the IT software industry like never before. This book is written in a remarkably witty manner at the same time explaining the business philosophy behind open source.

You can do something the brute force way, the stupid, grind-the-problem-down-until-its-not-a-problem-anymore way ,or you can find the right approach and suddenly the problem just goes away. You look at the problem the other way and you have this epiphany: It was only a problem because you were looking at it in a wrong way. There is a story of Carl Friedrich Gauss, the great mathematician which illustrates the above point. Gauss was in his school and his teacher was bored, so to keep the students preoccupied he instructed them to add up all the numbers between 1 to 100 .

Meaning : The gurgling sounds made by the stomach after eating. Usage 1: The plural is “borborygmi” and the adjective “borborygmic.” Borborygmi form the gastromantic data base (see WotD Archives for “gastromancy”). “Borborology” is a both rare and archaic alternate with an unexpected meaning: profanity. However, it is difficult not to believe that gastromantics are students of borborology, not of profanity but of borborygmi. Suggested usage: Today we offer you a more presentable expression for the less acceptable “gut-rumblings.

“Programming is one of the most interesting things in the world. It’s a game much more involved than chess, a game where you can make up your own rules and where the end results is whatever you can make of it. With the confines of the computer , you are the creator " --Linus Torvalds

Another classic success where a physical product is created by the customers of the product. Slim devices products are built by customers as well as employees and each of the customer has access to the complete firmware of the product. Its a fascinating tale of a company which pulled off a linux story on a physical product. Here are the numbers : Slim Devices will bring in around $10 million in revenue this year.