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MacLean’s Online: Bill Gates Besieged

Darren Boyd writes:

This Maclean’s magazine article is almost all to do with Linux
and OSS: what it is, why it is, and what it will be. It is very
positive towards Linux, and all-in-all an objective article. It is
definitely worth a read.

NOTE: The full article is much better then the
blurb on the website.

“They came by the thousands last week, a ragtag army of
pasty-faced computer geeks in sandals and T-shirts, streaming into
the San Jose Convention Center in California’s Silicon Valley to
honour the 29-year-old hacker from Helsinki who might just be the
one to dethrone Bill Gates. Linus Torvalds, the Finnish anti-Gates
who gave birth to the Linux operating system, was waiting with his
wife, Tove, and a double stroller carrying their two infant girls,
the very picture of domesticity with a diaper bag slung over his
shoulder the way other programmers haul around laptops. But when he
ambled on to the stage to deliver his keynote address, the geeks
hailed him as their leader, erupting into cheers and prolonged
applause. “Calm down,” an obviously embarrassed Torvalds said, and
the crowd obediently fell silent. Afterward, they mobbed him for
his autograph, grown men behaving like adolescent groupies at a
rock concert.”


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