“Eleven breakthrough products have taken top honors in the 1999
PC Magazine Technical Excellence Awards. In addition, Bill Joy of
Sun Microsystems was presented with a Lifetime Achievement award
and Linux developer Linus Torvalds was named Person of the
Year….”
“Person of the Year
Linus Torvalds, the Finnish inventor and trademark holder of the
Linux operating system was no overnight success. First released
in October 1991, Linux is the most potent and popular leader of the
open-source movement in 1999. Torvalds continues to work on
the post-Linux 2.2 kernel and he clearly knows the role his
operating system plays in the software-development world.”