Background
David Diamond was born in the United States.
(Once upon a time, Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, ju...)
Once upon a time, Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and distributed it via the Internet - for free. Today Torvalds is an international folk hero. And his creation LINUX is used by over 12 million people as well as by companies such as IBM. Now, in a narrative that zips along with the speed of e-mail, Torvalds gives a history of his renegade software while candidly revealing the quirky mind of a genius. The result is an engrossing portrayal of a man with a revolutionary vision, who challenges our values and may change our world.
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2001
David Diamond was born in the United States.
David Diamond is a writer as well as an editor. He wrote for many periodicals, including the New York Times, Business Week, and Wired. Then he joined Red Herring Magazine as the executive editor.
In 2001, Diamond co-authored Just for Fun: the Story of an Accidental Revolutionary with Linus Torvalds, developer of Linux. Just for Fun goes back to Torvalds's childhood in Helsinki, Finland. In this book, Torvalds provides a part-by-part account of the components he collected to build his Sinclair QL personal computer in 1986 in a back room in his mother's small apartment. The short chapters by Diamond that appear in italics serve to give an idea of the man Linus.
David Diamond is a famous journalist and a gifted author known as the co-author of the book, Just for Fun: the Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, which was published in many languages and received a lot of positive reviews. Also, he became particularly famous as the executive editor of Red Herring Magazine.
(Once upon a time, Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, ju...)
2001David Diamond is married. The marriage produced one daughter.
