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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. full list by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1. Steve Jobs
    2. Bill Gates
    3. Greg Dyke
    4. Hu Jintao
    5. Linus Torvalds
    6. Roger Cole
    7. Sam Palmisano
    8. Atal Behari Vajpayee
    9. Peter Gershon
    10. Carly Fiorina
    11. Rupert Murdoch
    12. Michael Dell
    13. Arun Sarin
    14. Richard Granger
    15. Fred von Lohmann
    16. Eric Schmidt
    17. David Levin
    18. Stephen Carter
    19. Steve Linford
    20. Christian Ude
    21. Greg Aharonian
    22. Scott McNealy
    23. Terry Semel
    24. Sergey Brin
    25. Ben Verwaayen
    26. Rod Aldridge
    27. Stelios Haji-Ioannou
    28. Ian Foster
    29. Dmitri Sklyarov
    30. David Blunkett
    31. Erich Gamma
    32. Jeff Bezos
    33. Donna Dubinsky
    34. Donald E Knuth
    35. Masayoshi Son
    36. Michael Gough
    37. Keiji Tachikawa
    38. Marc Benioff
    39. Sir John Sulston
    40. Larry Ellison
    41. Stephen Hill
    42. SoBig author
    43. Naomi Klein
    44. Henning Kagermann
    45. Mario Monti
    46. Ulrich Schumacher
    47. Tim Berners-Lee
    48. Steve Ballmer
    49. John Malone
    50. Michael Moritz