APCmag: Do You Trust This Penguin?

“For a small piece of software created by a hermit-like hacker
in an Finnish bedroom, Linux’s rise to fame as the World’s Most
Dangerous OS is nothing short of amazing.

“It’s hard to think of a piece of software (or any other PC
technology) that has had more ammunition thrown at it. It’s been
called a virus, been the subject of a US$1 billion lawsuit, and
described as a security risk and potential tool for terrorism. And
its reputation and perceived threat to the Gates empire only seems
to be growing with time. ‘I’m not out to destroy Microsoft,’
creator Linus Torvalds famously told a reporter last year. ‘That
will just be a completely unintentional side effect…'”

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