Linus Torvalds Officially a Hero!
Monday, November 13, 2006
Linus Torvalds was just 21 when he changed the world. Working out of his family's apartment in Helsinki in 1991, he wrote the kernel of a new computer operating system called Linux that he posted for free on the Internet — and invited anyone interested to help improve it.Go Linus! Finally a true hero of the information age. Linux is just "da bomb" (don't ask what provoked me to say that, and rest assured, I probably won't ever say it again). But really, what would the world be without Linux? I mean something has to keep the dark side from prevailing, and well, Linux happens to be that "something."
Read more @ TIME Europe.