![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The pace is fast, but the quippy tone can get somewhat tiring, though it definitely suits the portrayal of a computer-dominated life. This whole book is more like a series of e-mails, an exercise in textual communication for someone more used to code language than conversation: choppy sentences packed into short paragraphs, and sometimes just one-liners. OK, perhaps "story" in the traditional sense of the term is stretching it a bit. Just for Fun is the quirky story of how Linus Torvalds went from being a penniless, introverted code writer in Helsinki in the early 1990s to being the unwitting (and rather less than penniless) leader of a radical shift in computer programming by the end of the decade. But then again, the world's leading promoter of open source software and creator of the operating system Linux does humbly call himself an accidental revolutionary-accidental being the operative word here. Most 31-year olds can't boast of being the instigator of a revolution. ![]()
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