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Linus Makes Business Week's Best Managers List

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the meow-meow-meow dept.

andhar writes "Linus Torvalds has made Business Week Magazine's 2004 list of Best Managers, where he finds himself in the company of luminaries such as Hector Ruiz (AMD), John Henry (Boston Red Sox) and Steven Spielberg (Dreamworks SKG). The article lauds the influence of Linux on the server market and drops the names of such heavyweights as IBM, Dell, HP and Intel as Linux supporters. Linus is quoted, calling all you kernel coders a herd of cats."

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  1. "Linus did this... Linus did that..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny


    "Linus ate at McDonalds!" "Linus uses 2 ply toilet paper!" etc etc. Why not make a section devoted strictly to Linus (linus.slashdot.org) for the fawning and drooling and leave the Linux section to all things about Linux proper? That and some other minor changes would allow the readership to disable stories about what movie Linus watched over the weekend and other fluff if they wanted.

    Unless, of course, you're all too busy designing more ugly colour schemes.

    1. Re:"Linus did this... Linus did that..." by maskedbishounen · · Score: 3, Funny

      Okay, so spill it already.

      What movie did he watch over the weekend?

      *drools*

      --
      "An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
  2. "Best Manager" is quite a glowing endorsement by scotay · · Score: 5, Funny

    Right up there with "Most Ethical Lawyer."

  3. herding cats is easy... by WormholeFiend · · Score: 2, Funny

    Try cat juggling instead!

    Like SCO, Infinium Labs, are doing...

  4. Impressive. by clinko · · Score: 5, Funny

    A manager of a group that reads slashdot all day and still get things done.

    That is impressive.

  5. Re:It's a nice piece... by stupidfoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    You sure it's not a Korn field? (ok, lame Unix humor, I know)

    (sorry, I'm not talking about the band - although the Korn dev did get a Kornshell book signed by the band)

  6. Balmer? by n3m3sis · · Score: 1, Funny

    Where is Steve Balmer?

  7. Re:Linus Torvalds by ctr2sprt · · Score: 4, Funny
    He's adorned by many people and scored by everybody else.
    I think your letter "n" traveled a few words to the left.

    Although the image of Linus walking around with kernel developers hanging from his clothes while assorted groupies carry scorecards is pretty funny.

    (You mean that Linus is adored by many people and scorned by everybody else.)

  8. Obligatory reference to "cats" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Linus is quoted, calling all you kernel coders a herd of cats.

    Finally! Something I'm in total agreement with Linus about... Linux kernel coders are a bunch of pussies (for the non-English speakers in the group, that's a derogatory reference).

  9. Re:Out of context by Anonymous+Writer · · Score: 4, Funny

    For those who don't RTFA, this might be taken out of context as an insult to kernel contributors.

    Thanks for clearing that up... for a moment there I thought he was calling kernel contributors a bunch of pussies :P

  10. Re:Linus Torvalds by St.+Arbirix · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bash.org #35955

    <EyesofPrisms> and ou are an uytter newb
    <KC48348751> dude
    <KC48348751> how did that y move over like 12 characters

    --
    Direct away from face when opening.