Showing posts with label Linus Trovalds. Show all posts
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Aamir Mustafa Friday, April 20, 2012 at 02:50

Linus Torvalds Wins Millennium Technology Prize

The Millennium Technology Prize is the largest technology prize in the world and it is awarded once every two years by Technology Academy Finland. The Awarded is given for life-enhancing technological innovation.

Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds and Dr. Shinya Yamanaka won the Millennium Technology Prize, the prominent award for technological innovation for 2012.

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Aamir Mustafa Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 20:25

Steve Jobs tried to woo Linus Trovalds to work for Apple and sack Linux

Torvalds has never met Bill Gates, but around 2000, when he was still working at Transmeta, he met Steve Jobs. Jobs invited him to Apple’s Cupertino campus and tried to hire him. “Unix for the biggest user base: that was the pitch,” says Torvalds. The condition: He’d have to drop Linux development. 


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