“Wednesday, January 19, 2000 was a long day for Linus. It was
Rollout Day for Transmeta: the day the company spilled the beans
about what it had been doing for last four and a half years. During
that time Transmeta kept a Masonic secrecy about its work. By being
the one thing Linus and his co-workers couldn’t talk about,
Transmeta became the one thing everybody had to talk about. This
made for great buzz; but it was pretty weird that a movement built
on conversation was led by a guy who had to keep silent about his
work.”
“Until yesterday. That’s when the weirdness finally
stopped….”
“When I finally got to sit down with Linus in a room
upstairs, I expected him to be at a point of maximum stress, final
relief, or both. But he just seemed happy to have the thing over
with (mine was his last obligation for the day). So it was a
relaxed and upbeat conversation.“