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 [[http://www.rosenpublishing.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=25688&category_id=341&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1|Linus Torvalds named one of the 100 most influential inventors]]
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 Linus Torvalds
 By giving away his software, the Finnish programmer earned a place in history
 By PETER GUMBEL
- 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
+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
 Today, 15 years later, Linux powers everything from supercomputers to mobile phones around the world, and Torvalds has achieved fame as the godfather of the open-source movement, in which software code is shared and developed in a collaborative effort rather than being kept locked up by a single owner.
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 But his success isn't just measured in dollars. There's an asteroid named after him, as well as an annual software-geek festival. Torvalds' parents were student radicals in the 1960s and his father, a communist, even spent a year studying in Moscow. But it's their son who has turned out to be the real revolutionary.
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