[ Thanks to Eric
Anderson for this link. ]
“In the early ’90s, Phil Hughes was just another propeller head
with a math degree and a resume littered with computer skills.”
“About that time, unknown to Hughes, a 21-year-old student at
the University of Helsinki named Linus Torvalds disseminated into
cyberspace the code for a computer operating system he had
written.”
“Hughes, who by then had started a company that published
computer language reference cards, came across Torvalds’ code. It
was called Linux.”
“This is a real operating system,” thought Hughes, a man
with a bushy gray beard who wears jeans and sandals. “This has
potential.“