Because the confessed kidnapper, rapist and alleged murderer was on the phone -- singing a duet with an anchorwoman.

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Despite the anchorwoman's best efforts to stay mum on the topic, her tenure has been the subject of much buzz in recent months.

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The ever-confident Torvalds told panel moderator Catherine Heenan, an anchorwoman for a San Francisco evening news program, that the sudden spotlight thrust on Linux was not surprising, given its technological merits and the fervor of its acolytes.

CNN: Celebrated freeware OS Linux grows up

Women and minorities have conquered other traditionally white male-dominated arenas, on and off TV think anchorwoman Diane Sawyer, President Barack Obama but in late-night even daring cable is content with the homogenized likes of Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, with such occasional dashes as E!'

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Sitting on a panel here yesterday at the ISPCon trade show with the Red Hat CEO, his new investor friends, a local TV anchorwoman and a devoted crowd singing his praises, Torvalds certainly didn't mind the attention, nodding playfully at suggestions that he was approaching "God-like" status among developers.

CNN: Celebrated freeware OS Linux grows up