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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. First kumquat! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    kumquat.

  2. Did Linus ever eat a kumquat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bastard. I almost had it. May you get modded up to +5 Informative out of shame.

  3. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First-post-by-an-Indian-from-India-working-in-a-so ftware-company-that-is-involved-in-outsourcing

  4. dupe! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this has been posted before. lame.

  5. Hector the Dissector by fusion812 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your job > /dev/null

    Wait...

    You are a contractor?

    Welcome aboard!

  6. Cool Cats by Gr8Apes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Better than dirty dogs. (My Chows are cringing right now!)

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  7. Cat Chinchilla SCO (toilet bowl) by fusion812 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dog Wins... FATALITY

    Cat vs. Chinchilla

    Cat Wins... FATALITY

    SCO vs. toilet bowl...
    ...
    wait.. SCO is the toilet bowl, sorry

  8. John Henry???? by Homebrewed · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't see how this guy made the list. Finally gets enough of a team together so that the Red Sux make it by the Yankees and win the Series, then begins dismantling the team.

    Oh, well, I guess the Sux can win another Series in 85 years.

    GO YANKEES!!!!!

    1. Re:John Henry???? by paiute · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for Microsoft.

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  9. I'm in college. by Jacer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'll call in two orders for pizza for two of the buildings close to mine and steal one of the pizzas from the guy's car when s/he's delivering it to the other one. A pizza is a few bucks, and I'd feel much better about myself depriving someone of $8 (with student discount at pizza hut) than I would for several hundred, or possibly several thousand.

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  10. who modded you up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    flamebait and I have no mod points... :(

  11. Did I ever tell you about the time Linus took me by hsmith · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can't find one. Finally Linus takes me to a vacant lot and says, 'Here we are.' We sat there for a year and a half and sure enough someone constructs a bar around us. The day they opened we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burned the place to the ground. Linus yelled over the roar of the flames, 'Always leave things the way you found em

  12. Re:Did I ever tell you about the time Linus took m by ripbruger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Torvalds had a pet Cobra who he used to take for walks while wearing a white tails and tophat. He named the cobra Beverly, and he taught it how to fetch and dial phone. One day the cobra bit the maid, and with tears in his eyes, Brasky...I, uh mean, Torvalds had to shoot the maid.

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  13. mod 04 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NIGGER ASOCIATION

  14. Re:Previous winners by Xshare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I gotta say that her decision to just accept fate and her punishment was a great managerial decision, as compared to taking a long drawn out court case that we all know she'd lose.