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Cool People Every Techie Should Meet Someday
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 23 February 2012, 00:57 IST |
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3. Linus Torvalds
Contribution: Linux
Why you should meet him: Torvalds, a software engineer and hacker, is best known for the development of the Linux kernel. As of 2006, 2 percent of the Linux kernel was written by Torvalds himself, which amounts to a huge chunk of code, (probably the biggest that was ever contributed by one person) especially since it is open to developers for contribution. He remains the ultimate authority on which new code is incorporated into the kernel. A modified version of the kernel powers the Android OS
