The Mercury News: Luminary in Open-Source Movement Developed the Apache Web Server

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"When people think of open-source software and its luminaries, they tend to think first of Linux and Linus Torvalds. When I asked Torvalds to suggest some other leading lights inside the open-source movement, the first person he named was Brian Behlendorf.

"'Brian may not be that well-known to the general public,' Torvalds said in an e-mail, 'but when it comes to tech people, what's more well-known than Apache...?'"

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