As Torvalds rolled out new versions of Linux, it stood for more than free software.
If a Linus Torvalds started behaving like a virtual Milosevic, Linux hackers would take themselves elsewhere.
Linux(R) is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.
Mr Torvalds may be even more original with business than he is with bytes.
Or picture the Microsoft-versus-Linux squabble settled with a single slash of Gates' saber into Linus Torvalds' ear.
Fresh from receiving technology prize plaudits, Linux creator Torvalds is still telling it how it is.
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Linus Torvalds sits at the center, not all powerful, but a major factor.
Mr Torvalds himself now works for Transmeta, a chip-design firm in Silicon Valley.
"I never really intended or expected Linux to become the kind of big cooperative movement that it has, " says Torvalds.
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Mr Torvalds released the first version of the Linux kernel in 1991, when he was a 21-year-old computer-science student at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Not long after Linus Torvalds, then an undergraduate at the University of Helsinki, created the software in 1991, it was adopted by influential programmers and hackers.
Aside from hardware manufacturer gripes, Torvalds goes on to discuss his work with open source development in greater detail -- the full talk is right after the break.
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No one would say how much the four investors actually invested, although Red Hat CEO Bob Young, sitting on Torvalds' left during the panel discussion, downplayed the financial significance.
Torvalds, who keeps control of the Linux kernel, or core functionality, promised that the next version of Linux would run on servers with more than one processor, a big step up in computing power.
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.
On January 4th, Linus Torvalds, the Finnish programmer who co-ordinates the development of Linux (see article), quietly released the latest version of the Linux kernel the software that, as its name suggests, is at the core of the operating system.
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.
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