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Decisions - Open source software - Pick up a penguin.
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Byline: Bryan Glick, news editor of Computing.
In 1991, a student at the University of Helsinki, Finland, decided to write a new version of a popular computer operating system as a hobby so that he could run the software on his PC. It was the sort of task taken on by geeky kids everywhere and hardly a moment to concern the multibillion-dollar IT industry.
But 12 years later, the result of that hobby has become a talking point in boardrooms around the world and has the heavyweights of the technology sector engaged in public slanging matches to try to deal with this new threat. The student's name was Linus Torvalds and, ...
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