* 1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.

Linus Torvalds on the other hand said in a 2007 mailing list post that as a matter of policy, the development team preferred more incremental changes.

Raymond also coined an aphorism he dubbed " Linus ' Law ", inspired by Linus Torvalds: " Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow ", that first appeared in The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

* " The Curse of the Gifted ", from email exchange with Linus Torvalds, 2000

The two most prominent people attached to the movement, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, may be seen as representatives of the value based versus apolitical philosophies, as well as the Gnu versus Linux coding styles.

( For example, " Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is considered by some to be a hacker.

Members of the media sometimes seem unaware of the distinction, grouping legitimate " hackers " such as Linus Torvalds and Steve Wozniak along with criminal " crackers ".

Certainly major contributors to computer science such as Edsger Dijkstra and Donald Knuth, as well as the inventors of popular software such as Linus Torvalds ( Linux ), and Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson ( the C programming language ) are likely to be included in any such list ; see also List of programmers.

Himanen explained these ideas in a book, The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age, with a prologue contributed by Linus Torvalds and an epilogue by Manuel Castells.

Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.

Linus Benedict Torvalds (; born December 28, 1969 ) is a Finnish American software engineer and hacker, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel.

Torvalds was named after Linus Pauling, the Nobel Prize-winning American chemist, although in the book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Torvalds is quoted as saying, " I think I was named equally for Linus the Peanuts cartoon character ", noting that this makes him half " Nobel-prize-winning chemist " and half " blanket-carrying cartoon character ".

Linus Torvalds is married to Tove Torvalds ( née Monni )— a six-time Finnish national karate champion — whom he first met in the autumn of 1993.

* Linus Torvalds and His Five Entrepreneurial Lessons

* Linus Torvalds: Linux succeed thanks to selfishness and trust

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Calliope also had two famous sons, Orpheus and Linus, by either Apollo or the king Oeagrus of Thrace.

The best-known quote regarding Linus and the Great Pumpkin, originally from the comic strip but made famous by the TV special, is: " There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.

* December 28 – Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer

In 1998, McConnell was named as one of the three most influential people in the software industry by Software Development Magazine, along with Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds.

In Facts and Fallacies about Software Engineering, Robert Glass refers to Linus ' Law as a " mantra " of the Open source movement, but calls it a fallacy, stating that research has found that the number of bugs found decreases with too many inspectors, and that no research supports the Law as stated.

* Jing Wang and John M. Carroll ( 2011 ), Behind Linus ’ s Law: A Preliminary Analysis of Open Source Software Peer Review Practices in Mozilla and Python, Pennsylvania State Univ.

Some of the " more prominent organizations " involved in OSS development include the Apache Software Foundation, creators of the Apache web server ; a loose affiliation of developers headed by Linus Torvalds, creators of the Linux operating system kernel ; the Eclipse Foundation, home of the Eclipse software development platform ; the Debian Project, creators of the influential Debian GNU / Linux distribution ;

The second part, Linux, refers to the underlying Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds and associated open source software.

A number of prominent free software advocates, such as Linus Torvalds, have vocally opposed this restrictive interpretation and enforcement.

Under Anderson, Wired has produced some widely noted articles, including the April 2003 " Welcome to the Hydrogen Economy " story, the November 2003 " Open Source Everywhere " issue ( which put Linus Torvalds on the cover and articulated the idea that the open source method was taking off outside of software, including encyclopedias as evidenced by Wikipedia ), the February 2004 " Kiss Your Cubicle Goodbye " issue ( which presented the outsourcing issue from both American and Indian perspectives ), and an October 2004 article by Chris Anderson, which coined the popular term " Long Tail.

There are two statements named Linus's Law: one by Eric S. Raymond concerning software bug detection by a community, and the other by Linus Torvalds about the motivations of programmers.

Linus's Law as described by Raymond is a claim about software development, named in honor of Linus Torvalds and formulated by Raymond in his essay and book " The Cathedral and the Bazaar " ( 1999 ).

Figures who have supported the campaign against software patents in Europe include Tim Berners-Lee, developer of the World Wide Web, and Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel.

The Linux Mark Institute ( LMI ) is an organization which administers the " Linux " trademark on behalf of Linus Torvalds for computer software which includes the Linux kernel, computer hardware utilizing Linux-based software, and for services associated with the implementation and documentation of Linux-based products.

The Linux trademark is owned by Linus Torvalds in the U. S., Germany, the E. U., and Japan for " Computer operating system software to facilitate computer use and operation ".

Linus Torvalds, looking for a free alternative, finally started developing his own distributed source control management software, Git.

* October 2004 interview with Linus Torvalds on commercial potential of Linux software

* Linus Yale, Jr. ( 1821 – 1868 ), American mechanical engineer, son of Yale, Sr.

Bearded throwback to the sixties, hacker Richard Stallman serves as the movement's spiritual leader while Scandinavian Linus Torvalds acts as its mild mannered chief engineer ( as developer of the Linux kernel ).

Linus Yale, Jr. ( 4 April 1821-25 December 1868 ) was an American mechanical engineer and manufacturer, best known for his inventions of locks, especially the cylinder lock.

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