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Linus Torvalds Moving to the Silicon Forest

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the movin'-on-up dept.

Evilive writes "According to KATU News, Linus Torvalds and family will be moving to Portland, Oregon so he can oversee the Open Source Development Labs. Torvalds says he and his family will make the move after his children finish school next week. Sayeth Linus: 'The plan was to try to acclimatize and have time to grow webbed feet (although I'm told there are implants available) by moving during the summer.'"

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  1. Re:He'll move back - in spite of Intel. OSDL, etc. by Seumas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First off, yes the weather is dreary for at least two thirds of the year. Some of us prefer that. Not everyone wants San Diego style weather and Portland is probably more familiar to someone from Finland than most of California, too (although the Bay Area is a bit like Portland as far as weather most of the year).

    Second, the cost of housing is cheaper than in the bay area, but still in the top ten or fifteen most expensive in the country.

    I wouldn't leave here for anything. I lived in the Bay Area. Didn't like it one bit.

  2. Re:Why? by tsotha · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It amazes me how many people on this site don't understand why Linus is so important to open source software. It doesn't have anything to do with his coding ability. I agree many people could have written Linux 1.0. But there never would have been a version 2.

    The reason he's so important is his ability to lead. You don't find that very often in technical people. To be sure, he's not the only leader. But this kind of distributed project will whither on the vine if you don't have somebody with a little charisma to keep people on the same page.