From Linus Torvalds' autobiography Just for Fun, his parents are "all basically journalists" as well as "overactive communists".
He gave a talk in 1994 when Linux 1.0 was published after three years of efforts on developing, and that talk attracted public media's attention, and finally on Finnish TV.
I just think it's not easy for a general geek to get this much attention. And Linux was not the only UNIX like kernel during that time.
I've red The Cathedral & the Bazaar. Linux is a successful combination of opensource and internet according to ESR. However, I haven't red someone talk about if communist propaganda made this combination happen.
Maybe I'm putting two and two together and make five. But does anyone has similar feeling with me?
