Excellent interview

Posted Aug 18, 2004 16:30 UTC (Wed) by purslow (guest, #8716)
In reply to: Excellent interview by rjamestaylor
Parent article: Linus Torvalds' Benevolent Dictatorship (Business Week)

Agreed, but it's not a surprise: he grew up in Europe.

Europe

Posted Aug 18, 2004 18:51 UTC (Wed) by andrel (guest, #5166) [Link] (2 responses)

Plenty of Europeans are inarticulate. More relevant: Linus's parents are journalists and his father is a politician.

Finland

Posted Aug 19, 2004 8:41 UTC (Thu) by chepelov (guest, #23542) [Link] (1 responses)

Is his father still active in politics? IIRC, Linus stated he will not settle back to Finland (too cold or not enough sunlight, or something to that effect). Wouldn't that hurt his father's career?

Anyway, parent is right: growing up in a highly media-aware environment certainly helps more with being articulate and a good handler of journalists than growing up in one or another $LOCALE.

Finland

Posted Aug 19, 2004 13:38 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

Is his father still active in politics?

Nils Torvalds never was a visible figure in Finnish politics. I only remember hearing about him as the father of Linus. If Wikipedia is to be believed, he is more a journalist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Torvalds