Linux and Synergetics

Why a Student of Synergetics Chose Linux in 1993

• Technical Reasons: Linux and Synergetics are both "complexes" of "simple" ideas.
• Systems & Synergy: Linux's holistic toolkit approach is synergetic.
• Omnidirectional Halo: Hierarchy and Systems Interrelationships: It's how Universe is structured.
• Operational perspective: a focus on how systems operate and what switches modify behaviors.
• Dynamical interrelationships and feedback systems: central components in Synergetics and computer engineering.
• Sociological Reasons: A world-view has cultural texture.
• The individual reigns supreme: Linux is not the product of Big business, Big government, nor Big religion.
• Linux culture stands for technical excellence, individual initiative, and the liberty of Humanity's cultural heritage.
• Linux has strong developer and end-user communities.
• Economical Reasons: Nature operates on least effort principles.
• Linux was and still is "free".
• The ever growing amount of open source software increasingly means using it is the least effort method to add any required functionality.