![]() ![]() This whole book is more like a series of e-mails, an exercise in textual communication for someone more used to code language than conversation: choppy sentences packed into short paragraphs, and sometimes just one-liners. OK, perhaps "story" in the traditional sense of the term is stretching it a bit. Just for Fun is the quirky story of how Linus Torvalds went from being a penniless, introverted code writer in Helsinki in the early 1990s to being the unwitting (and rather less than penniless) leader of a radical shift in computer programming by the end of the decade. ![]() But then again, the world's leading promoter of open source software and creator of the operating system Linux does humbly call himself an accidental revolutionary-accidental being the operative word here. Most 31-year olds can't boast of being the instigator of a revolution. ![]()
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