Thanks to Eric Harlow
for this link.
“Ask average people to name the most influential person in the
computer industry, and you’ll probably hear Microsoft’s Bill Gates.
Unless they’re Apple fans, who will probably give the nod to
founding father Steve Jobs. But for many of the world’s top geeks,
a third name looms even larger than those giants — Linus
Torvalds.”
This is an introduction story about Linux vs. bill, Linux vs
Microsoft, Open source vs. Proprietary software.
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