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Glyn Moody, Rebel Code: The Inside Story of Linux and the Open Source Revolution (2001), by a computer journalist, is a personal biography of Linux developer Linus Torvalds and also a social chronicle of the free-software movement.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: BBC News - Linus Torvalds: Linux succeeded thanks to selfishness and trust. | Aug 18, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Dec 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - Linus Torvalds. | May 21, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Hall of Fame - Linus Torvalds. | Feb 26, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC News - Linus Torvalds: Linux succeeded thanks to selfishness and trust. | Dec 10, 2024 | ||
| Article revised to include Torvalds's abusive behavior toward Linux developers. | Aug 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: All American Entertainment Speakers - Linus Torvalds. | Jun 21, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: IEEE Computer Society - Linus Torvalds. | Mar 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Linus Torvalds. | Nov 09, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lemelson-MIT - Linus Torvalds. | Jun 23, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Biography of Finland - Linus Torvalds. | May 11, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: History-Computer - Linus Torvalds οΏ½ Complete Biography, History, and Inventions. | Nov 17, 2022 | ||
| Added material about Linux. | Jan 20, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Helsinki - Department of Computer Science - Biography of Linus Torvalds. | Sep 28, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Computer History Museum - Biography of Linus Torvalds. | Sep 15, 2017 | ||
| Torvalds received the Millennium Technology Prize in 2012. | Jun 26, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Biography of Linus Torvalds. | Apr 13, 2011 | ||
| Bibliography added. | Apr 07, 2011 | ||
| New article added. | Feb 18, 2009 |
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