As scientist, the least thing I expected, when yesterday I listened to the very interesting Linus Torvalds speech at TED, was a discussion on the way science and its results are diffused. I was pleased to hear Linus mentioning arXiv, the famous science archive of paper.

At the moment writing, arXiv contains 1,178,149 articles. Not bad.
I do admit I did not expect Linus was aware of its existence, being into a rather different ecosystem.
Well, now I understand that there are deep links between the open source paradigm and a certain way to think about science and about the spreading of its methodologies and its results.
Something which has a deep connection with a very simple word, open. A simple word that it can disclose a whole world.
Something Linus addressed very well, in just a few words.