Linus Torvalds: Linux succeeded thanks to selfishness and trust

Linus Torvalds developed Linux in 1991 while at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He became a US citizen in 2010. Linux creator Linus Torvalds has won the Millennium Technology Prize and an accompanying cheque for 600,000 euros ($756,000; £486,000) from the Technology Academy of Finland. He was nominated for the award in recognition of the fact he had created the original Linux operating system

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"I actually think the real idea of open source is for it to allow everybody to be "selfish", not about trying to get everybody to contribute to some common good"