Both men share an open source philosophy, which has been in part (and implicitly) based on this belief. Raymond in his paper The Cathedral and the Bazaar, is: " Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." A deep bug is one which is hard to find, and with many people looking for it, the hope (and so far most experience) is that no bug will be deep. Linus's law, a tenet inspired by Torvalds but coined by Eric S. His personal mascot is a penguin nicknamed Tux, which has been widely adopted by the Linux community as the mascot of Linux. He worked for Transmeta Corporation from February 1997 until June 2003, and is now seconded to the Open Source Development Labs, a Beaverton, Oregon based software consortium. Finally, they moved to Portland, Oregon to be closer to Linus' place of work. In June of 2004, Torvalds and his family moved to Lake Oswego, Oregon. Torvalds moved to San Jose, California and lived there for several years with his family. They have three daughters, Patricia Miranda (born December 5, 1996), Daniela Yolanda (born April 16, 1998) and Celeste Amanda (born November 20, 2000), and a cat named Randi (short for Mithrandir, the Elvish name for Gandalf, a wizard in The Lord of the Rings). She is a six-time Finnish national Karate champion, whom he first met in fall 1993. In 1990 he purchased an Intel 80386-based IBM PC and began his work on Linux. He is known to have written a Pac Man clone named Cool Man. He programmed an assembler and a text editor for the QL, as well as a few games. After the VIC-20 he purchased a Sinclair QL which he modified extensively, especially its operating system. His interest in computers began with a Commodore VIC-20. thesis, titled Linux: A Portable Operating System, on Linux. Torvalds attended the University of Helsinki from 1988 to 1996, graduating with a master's degree in computer science. Torvalds was embarassed when other children would tease him about his father's political views. His father was a communist who in the mid-1970s spent a year studying in Moscow. Both of his parents were campus radicals at the University of Helsinki in the 1960s. Torvalds was named after Linus Pauling, the American Nobel Prize-winning chemist. His family belonged to the Swedish-speaking minority (roughly 6%) of Finland's population. Torvalds was born in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, as the son of Anna and Nils Torvalds, and the grandson of poet Ole Torvalds.
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