Finnish software innovator Linus Torvalds more interested in philosophy than business, Aug 24, 2001

"Silicon Valley is going through such a bad hangover after the fall in stock prices, that the only thing that people are looking at is the bottom of their toilet bowls", says Linus Torvalds, developer of the Linux computer operating system. Torvalds was speaking in Helsinki on Wednesday at a seminar on the information society.

By the time you were 10 what had you accomplished?

To give you something to compare yourself against consider Pu Yi who by that tender age had been the emperor of China for seven years.

And by the time he reached the end of his first decade Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had been composing original works for four years and had been taken to many European capitals showing off his precocious musical talent.

The Time of the Penguin is a series of articles at CNET to coincide with the celebration of 10 years of Linux

Letters purportedly written by at least two dead people landed on the desk of Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff earlier this year, imploring him to go easy on Microsoft for its conduct as a monopoly.

State law-enforcement officials became suspicious after noticing that the same sentences appear in the letters and that some return addresses appeared invalid.

At the LinuxWorld trade show next week, Ximian, the company building a Linux desktop around the Gnome user interface, will introduce a shrink-wrapped version of its personal information manager instead of distributing it solely via user downloads from its Web site.

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