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Torvalds the "5th Most-Powerful Man in Tech"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the where-is-shampoo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to silicon.com, Linus Torvalds is the fifth most influential man in technology. The bio they have written for him isn't the most flattering to the open source community though. I quote: "If it wasn't for the presence of Lara Croft and Xena Warrior Princess, techies around the world would have posters of Torvalds on their walls." It goes on to say: "In truth Torvalds best work is in the past"... which seems to negate their own argument for having him in there. Also in the Top 5 is Steve Jobs (1) who comes out on top of Bill Gates (2). As an interesting aside, the writer of the Sobig virus even makes it in at Number 42..."

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  1. Hmmmm so that means.... by arcite · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If Linus had gigantic breasts and long flowing hair.....oh wait MB not.

  2. Bullshit by CausticWindow · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yet another random ranking that's supposed to make some kind of sense. Anybody that wants to believe that Steve Jobs is more powerful than Bill Gates will probably like it though. And even though Linus Torvalds does a great job with Linux, how do they figure he's powerful? Utter crap.

    Cosmo for geeks?

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  3. You mean the ones who ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    put the economy in the POTTY?

    By the way, technically he is the POTUS*.
    Don't forget the asterisk. History won't.

    1. Re:You mean the ones who ... by bnenning · · Score: 0, Flamebait
      put the economy in the POTTY?


      Exactly. They developed time travel and went back to 1996, where they assumed top positions at Enron and Worldcom, deliberately inflated the stock market bubble, and convinced Clinton not to do anything about Osama.

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    2. Re:You mean the ones who ... by Medievalist · · Score: 0, Flamebait
      They developed time travel and went back to 1996, where they assumed top positions at Enron and Worldcom, deliberately inflated the stock market bubble, and convinced Clinton not to do anything about Osama.
      Um, hate to break this to you, but many of the people who were in "top positions at Enron and Worldcom" in the 90s are in top positions at the White House today.

      Look it up. Assuming you are one of the few Clinton-obsessed shrub apologists who can read.

      And incidentally, I seem to remember Clinton firing cruise missiles at Osama. "Conservatives" in the media and government lambasted him for it, too - even though he got just as close to knocking the pious bastard off as George Bush ever did, and spent a hell of a lot less taxpayer dollars to do it!

      Are you sure it wasn't Rush Limbaugh who invented that time machine? The right wing needs to get past this whole Clinton thing, I mean, it really makes them look like a bunch of chumps. The rest of us are ready to move on.
  4. Whatever happened to... by phlyingpenguin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The guy that invented the internet, Al Gore?

  5. Where's Al Gore?? by bear105 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Funny how Al Gore, the inventor of the Internet isn't on this list...

  6. Re:5th most powerful? by jo42 · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Butt plugs all around!

  7. Re:Greg Dyke by fuqqer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fucking AC eurotrash weasel. I bet you've never heard of Bob Edwards, a famous US commentator on NPR news, and nobody here cares. The fact that you care enough to post about the fact that I didn't know some punk your no good, tea swilling, country that couldn't hold it's colonies, is evidence that you're an ass. You sir are a spineless poofter.

    Are you trying to tell me that you knew everyone on the list? Yeah right, you stuck up chump. I'd be willing to bet you didn't even know 7 of the top ten.

    Anonymous Cowards like you, who berate someone for not knowing something that you may think is trivial violates the spirit of learning and just makes a lot more noise on /. Kinda like this post you AC prick.

    Mod me down for having the guts to post as myself unlike the wasted load of sarcastic semen who this post responds to. I can't believe the parent was modded up as informative. The original aricle has links to who the guys are anyway.

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  8. Re: translation by moncyb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, what a lame fuck you are. Some people have a life.