Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, Just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood.
Now, in a narrative that zips along with the speed of e-mail, Torvalds gives a hiStory of his renegade software.
And his creation LINUX is used by over 12 million people as well as by companies such as IBM.
Today Torvalds is an international folk hero.
Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and distributed it via the Internet -- for free.
Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, Just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood