“Torvalds, a soft-spoken and down-to-earth engineer, has
become one of the luminaries of the Internet because of Linux and
his steady hand in guiding the continuing development of the
program.“
“He left his native Finland in 1997 to work at Transmeta, a
secretive Silicon Valley chip-design start-up partially funded by
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.”
“Torvalds was interviewed last week while he was in Los Angeles
to speak at USC at the WebRush II conference on wireless
technology.”
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