By Jim Zemlin, executive director, the Linux Foundation1.
Linus Torvalds was named the 17th most influential person of the century by Time magazine. Maybe you’ve never heard of him but you’ve probably heard of the software he created, the world’s most successful software, Linux. It runs everything, I am not kidding. It is in your phone, you car, your TV; it runs your bank, most of the global economy, air traffic control systems, nuclear submarines, most of the Internet. You use Linux every single day, multiple times a day, and you don’t even notice.
Linus Torvalds was named the 17th most influential person of the century by Time magazine. Maybe you’ve never heard of him but you’ve probably heard of the software he created, the world’s most successful software, Linux. It runs everything, I am not kidding. It is in your phone, you car, your TV; it runs your bank, most of the global economy, air traffic control systems, nuclear submarines, most of the Internet. You use Linux every single day, multiple times a day, and you don’t even notice.