![]() ![]() The result is an engrossing portrayal of a man with a revolutionary vision, who challenges our values and may change our world.Most 31-year olds can t boast of being the instigator of a revolution. Now, in a narrative that zips along with the speed of e-mail, Torvalds gives a history of his renegade software while candidly revealing the quirky mind of a genius. 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. ![]()
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