Linus Torvalds, Geek of the Week

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 18, 2008 9:59 PM
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Linus Torvalds, an acknowledged godfather of the open-source movement, was just 21 when he changed the world by writing Linux Today, 17 years later, Linux powers everything from supercomputers to mobile phones. In fact ask yourself this: if Linux didn't exist, would Google, Facebook, PHP, Apache, or MySQL?

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