BBC News: Happy birthday Linux

Aug 24, 2001, 18:59 (5 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Mark Ward)

[ Thanks to T Barrett for this link. ]

"By the time you were 10 what had you accomplished?

To give you something to compare yourself against consider Pu Yi who by that tender age had been the emperor of China for seven years.

And by the time he reached the end of his first decade Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had been composing original works for four years and had been taken to many European capitals showing off his precocious musical talent.

But Linux could have them all beat, because many believe that the software, which turns 10 this weekend, could be well on the way to starting a revolution."

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