Linux has gone through 20 years, and the future will be better.

Last week, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, gave a speech in a wheelchair and kicked off the 2011 Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit.

Zemlin called this conference a gathering of Linux leaders. These Linux leaders are not going to claim that they have beaten Microsoft, Zemlin said, but "we have broken Microsoft's control".

In his report, Zemlin shows why Linux vendors, developers and users have a better future than Microsoft. Zemlin celebrated the 20-year history of Linux with video reports because of previous serious skiing accidents.

Zemlin pointed out that Linux has eaten almost all systems, from traffic control systems to entertainment systems to nuclear submarines. Linux is also at the heart of the $10 billion CERN Super Collider, and the effects of the movie Avatar are also used. Zemlin also said that the stock market using Linux accounted for 72% of global stock exchanges in 2010. This data was before the London Stock Exchange joined Linux earlier this year. Of course, it is "completely reversed" in the supercomputer. Within a decade, the world's top 500 supercomputers have been converted from 96% Unix to 96% Linux.

These may all be just interested in tech mad people, but what about the real world? In fact, the whole world has also undergone some changes.

Zemlin pointed out that Wall Street has declared Linux to the world as the future. Comparing the stock prices of Red Hat and Microsoft over the past decade, you will find that Red Hat's share price has risen by 400%, while Microsoft's share price has stagnated. Although Microsoft's market capitalization and revenue are relatively large, but in terms of long-term future growth, Wall Street is optimistic about Linux and Red Hat.

Looking ahead, Zemlin said that more and more innovations about business models are built on open source. For example, Amazon's Kindle is an Android Linux device that lets Amazon sell more books. Zemlin believes that Linux will have more interesting applications and support both old and new business models.

In terms of mobile computing, Zemlin is also quite optimistic. Because open source allows companies to control their own destiny, Linux and open source will play an important role on smartphones and tablets.

As for the real future of Linux, after introducing the 1.0 version of the new Yocto program for embedded Linux developers, Zemlin said that the next Steve · Jobs may be using Linux. This is a very reasonable guess, because Linux and open source tools make development easy. Linux gives developers the best tools to develop products, and the next most breakthrough product will be Linux.