Who is Linus Torvalds?

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born in Helsinki, Finland, December 28, 1969, age 41 years) is a Finnish software engineer who is known as a pioneering development of the Linux Kernel. He now acts as the coordinator of the project.
Inspired by Minix Linux (operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum) to develop a Unix-like operating systems (Unix-like) that can be run on a PC. Linux can now run on a variety of other architectures.
When Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student reticent to distribute the source code (source code) floppy-sized Linux kernel via the Internet in 1991, he had no idea that what gave birth to the commencement of a business worth billions of dollars at a later date.
He did not even suspect the Linux operating system later became the most promising, which can be embedded into the servers, desktop computers, tablet PCs, PDAs, mobile phones, GPS, robots, cars to NASA's shuttle-made.

Not only that, many avid Linux (Linuxer) who bought the device made by Apple and replace with the Linux operating system. For me it's a little crazy, remember to delete the operating system Mac & iPod mean throwing money and replace the operating system is quite difficult compared to Windows-based desktop. Currently 20% desktop market share around the world using Linux far above Machintosh and continue to pursue the Windows desktop. And 12.7% servers around the world are using Linux, far above UNIX, BSD, Solaris, and continued to increase market share erode Microsoft's server.
When Linus leave this promising position in the semi-conductor company Transmeta and lives with his wife and three children on a hill in the village in Portland, Oregon, USA, adjacent to the headquarters of the Open Source Development Labs. This nonprofit organization manned by 20s programmers who have a passion similar to Linus. They continue to develop the Linux kernel that is now the size of 290-megabytes or exceed 9 billion line of code. Linux and his team received input lines of code from around the world, sort, set priorities and incorporate the most brilliant idea into a kernel. LSD itself is supported by dozens of IT giants like IBM, HP, Dell and Sun, both in terms of material and human resources.
Linus is not the first person who gave away the source code for this pattern is common in the early growth of the computer industry. But Linus successfully set a standard that many developers join forces to free the source code of their programs, ranging from BSD, Solaris, Suse, Java to Adobe.
Although only paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, Linus has created many multimillionaires in the computer industry ranging from RedHat, Suse, Debian, Mandriva, Ubuntu and many other open source software developers. Almost nothing had changed from Linus. When he arrived late at an IT conference, he even did not hesitate to sit on the floor in shorts and shoes, her favorite sandals. He did not even angry when giving a speech at a lectern and interrupted by some BSD programmers who advanced to the front of the stage claiming that the BSD kernel is infinitely greater than the Linux kernel. He even did not hesitate to wear a T-Shirt protesters posed BSD and continued his speech.
According to Linus, what it does is just to share. In contrast to Richard M Stallman a zealot with the concept of free software, Linus only emphasized the openness (open), then no matter whether in a mixed operating system and proprietery free program.
Any words of Linus almost a word among Linuxer to raise the standard a certain value. Any publications, speeches, press dab email releasenya always been waiting for millions of people. In his busy, Linus took cycling downhill and drink at the bar of the village.