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“Stockholm University at a presentation ceremony here today
awarded an honorary doctorate to Linus Torvalds for his
accomplishments as the creator of the Linux open-source operating
system.
“Torvalds, a 29-year-old native Finn, became the Swedish
university’s youngest-ever recipient of an honorary doctorate, and
was lauded in a statement from the university’s Faculty of Natural
Sciences as an “IT rebel” and “computer genius.”
“Torvalds said that he only wants to give people an alternative
technology, as well as a different model for doing business.”
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