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IP: Leaders, Part 2


From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 06:19:46 -0500



From: "Gillmor, Dan" <DGillmor () sjmercury com>
To: "'Dave Farber '" <farber () cis upenn edu>

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Dave, here's the URL for the second column in the "Exploring Leadership"
series we're doing this year:

http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/leaders/torvalds.htm

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LINUS Torvalds would make a lousy dictator, and it's hard to imagine him as
a corporate chief executive.

He laughingly calls himself lazy. He avoids making decisions about the
growing, worldwide movement he leads -- a movement that has turned him, in
the eyes of many, into an icon of the Information Age.

``The best result,'' he says, ``is still what happens naturally.''


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