Linus Torvalds Comes Clean. Or Does He? | Linux Today

Linus Torvalds Comes Clean. Or Does He?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 19, 2009

“I, however, had a few lingering questions burning a hole in my
cerebral cortex so I caught up with Linus via email to ask what I
wanted to know. Since the voting for everyone’s favorite
FakeLinusTorvalds is over and LinuxCon is right around the corner,
I’m told these answers were provided by FLT #4… or were they?

“You be the judge.

“LH: You seem to be sublimating a little bit of anger toward Jim
Zemlin. What would it take to patch things up between you two?

“FLT#4: Don’t get me wrong, I love the Gremlin. He supports my
extravagant lifestyle and makes me sound like a big deal to people
I don’t care about. There is no patching up to do, but if he asks
me to ‘leverage’ something once more, there will be tears and
suckling going on.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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