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BBC News: Mr Linux Basks in the Limelight

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 5, 2002

[ Thanks to Glen for this link. ]

“Linus Torvalds has revealed he is happy to be the poster boy
for the anti-Microsoft campaign but would not know what to say if
he met Bill Gates.

“Talking to BBC World ClickOnline at his home in Silicon Valley,
the inventor of the Linux operating system admitted that he has
never been in the same room with his arch-rival.

“‘We have been at the same conferences but never in the same
room. I wouldn’t know what to say to him,’ he told
ClickOnline…”

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Web Webster

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