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To: ShadowAce; libstripper
If he really wanted to earn admiration,

Uh.....capitalists earn CA$H. Admiration comes to them for hard work. Lemme understand your perspective, who would you say has contributed more to society (in the world) and deserves more respect and admiration, Rush, or Linus Torvalds?

53 posted on 11/10/2005 12:18:08 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine
...who would you say has contributed more to society (in the world) and deserves more respect and admiration, Rush, or Linus Torvalds?

OK, I'll play your little game. Personally, I can't decide. Rush was smart enough to combine his natural ability with an existing (though unexploited) market and an existing career path to make millions. That's pretty impressive.

Linus took a hobby that was of personal interest to him, created a market, and also created a career path that is pretty much unique--even today. He makes quite enough money to live on in a very expensive section of the country. He's provided more employment than Rush, his product is taking on the biggest corporation in history (and doing a great job of it), and he's providing competition all over the world.

67 posted on 11/10/2005 12:37:31 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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