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Torvalds Dubbed Most Influential Executive of 2004
quamaretto writes "CRN has named Linus Torvalds the most influential executive of 2004, in the magazine's feature list of the top 25 executives of the year. For perspective, he is followed by Sam Palmisano of IBM and Steve Balmer of Microsoft. The coverage of Torvalds is 5 pages, including pictures, a written article, and a lot of interview material. Topics are business centric, including SCO, OSDL, and Torvald's personality in development and management."
bash: exec: Linus Torvalds: not found
Interviewer: What do you think of _____?
:-)
Linus: Oh I don't know. Doesn't really matter. I just like to code.
Copy-paste as needed.
Laugh at stupidity: mod idiots +1 Funny.
I for one welcoem my new new Lnus overlord.
sorry 'bout the mess...
So what do you think of the Bill Gates vibrator story?
"I don't"
So you give away this software totally for free? Yecch! I'd hate to have dinner at your house!
"I know, and you won't."
--Chag
</sarcasm>
No.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
There goes geekdom. I hope he wore the Tshirt and pants with matching stains to prove he isn't a real executive.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
This is almost as good as saying Darl is on crack. Linus, as the accomplished veteran of alt.fan.warlords, apparently still knows phony hubris when he sees it.
[Linus toadie mode: off]sigs, as if you care.
Real programmers have sixteen fingers.
I have 8. Does octal count? I also have two thumbs for when I need to use straight binary.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Certianly a great number of supporting applications helped, but I wonder where the OSS movement would be today with the Linux kernel.
The OSS movement would be exactly where it is now, since the Linux kernel exists.
Hmm I wonder what would be happening now if the pope was alive.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
This does not sound like a Mac Zealot to me, and they do have a valid point. Steve Jobs has done quite a bit with Apple. Maybe not in the past year, but overall has turned the company around. So, he might not have made the list, but dont get angry at the poster.
The coverage of Torvalds is 5 pages, including pictures, a written article, and a lot of interview material.
Is there a centrefold? :P
Pwned. Better luck next time, ass.
When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?
Steve Jobs. Yeah he's been an awesome influence to the entire Apple community. To any member of the Apple community, this *is* the world, so I understand your confusion.
Cheers
Stor
"Yeah well there's a lot of stuff that should be, but isn't"
Money is not everything.
but I sure sleep better when I can afford to pay all my bills.
The reason girls and Windows users don't understand UNIX is because all the documentation is in Man files.
I think he meant plagiaristic.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
according to RMS.