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Linus Torvalds Wins Election, Declared Next Leader of Free World

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 3, 1999

The results from LinuxCare’s election have been posted.

“In what will be remembered as a historic landslide victory,
Linus Torvalds won the election for the next leader of the Free
World. Torvalds won 73% of the votes, giving him a huge win over
candidates Bill Gates (9%), George W. Bush, Jr. (6%), Bill Bradley
(5%), Al Gore (4%), and Dan Quayle (4%). The announcement of the
winner appears in a full page ad in today’s Northern California
Edition of the Wall Street Journal.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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