Moving to Portland
From the WillametteWeek, crazy ...
LinusTorvalds, the tech-world idol who launched the OpenSource operating system Linux from his bedroom in Finland more than a decade ago, is moving to PortlandOregon. Torvalds, who works with Beaverton's Open Source Development Lab, has purchased a Portland-area home and enrolled his kids in school. Many Portland programmers work on Linux, a populist public-domain phenomenon (see "The Rebel Alliance," Jan. 28, 2004).