Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School in the Leeds suburb of Chapel Allerton won the chance to produce this "junior" version of Question Time by being one of the winners of a national competition run by the BBC.
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.
One of the last people to inveigh, with any effect, against that heresy was Cardinal Heenan, the Archbishop of Westminster, who took Murdoch to task, in 1969, for having bought and splashed, or resplashed, the memoirs of Christine Keeler in the News of the World.