16 May 2021 6:00am,
by
David Cassel
This month Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds talked at length about topics near and dear to his heart, in a new two-partemail interview with Jeremy Andrews, the founding partner and CEO of Tag1, a global technology consulting firm as well as the second all-time leading contributor to Drupal. For part of a new series of interviews with Open Source leaders, Andrews had wanted to catch up with Torvalds before the 30th anniversary of Linux this August.
Torvalds has spent those 30 years — since the age of 21 — steadfastly presiding over the community that’s maintaining a worldwide phenomenon, the open source operating system that “literally grew kind of haphazardly from me initially just trying to learn the in-and-outs of my new PC hardware,” he wrote.