A quiet Finnish student called Linus Torvalds could go down in history as the man who brought Microsoft to its knees. There is not a great deal to do in Finland during the long winter evenings and, while a student at Helsinki University in the early 1990s, the young Torvalds, now a resident in Santa Clara, California, whiled away the dark hours creating a computer operating system that he believed would work better than those on the market.
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