CRN: The Dark Horse -- Linux creator Linus Torvalds and his operating system

"With the Internet and DOJ breathing down his neck, who would have thought industry titan Bill Gates would face his greatest threat from a 29-year-old Finnish programmer."

"Linus Torvalds, creator and keeper of the Linux kernel, finds himself and his operating system in the spotlight as the "other cola" in a global software war, which is rapidly mutating into a competition between PC-centric and device-independent standards...."

"Linux advocates delight in another irony. "What's happening to Microsoft [Corp.] is what they did to Netscape [Communications Corp.]," says Arthur Tyde, executive vice president of Linuxcare Inc., a Linux VAR in San Francisco. "Linux is better than what Microsoft offers, and it's free, like Internet Explorer is free."

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