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by Anonymous Coward on 03:40 AM November 7th, 2001 (Score:5, Funny)

Saw this on zdnet [zdnet.com]...

The cat is out of the bag. Linus Torvalds was recently seen living under a
freeway overpass. When asked about his current living conditions, he remarked
"well, Transmeta had to lay me off, and they kept it quiet because they didn't
want to enrage their only customers -- Linux geeks." What will this mean for
the God of Linux? All the Linux companies are showing cash shortfalls, and none
appear to be hiring. A spokesman for Red Hat commented, "We're just tapped out
of money. We wish Linus well, but what can we say? We got what we wanted out of
him, and know he's going to have to get a real job like the rest of us will
have to sooner than later."

Linus appears to be taking it in stride. "Well, I've always said that I wasn't
interested in making money off Linux. And heck, this overpass is not so bad.
It's still better than Finland."

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda of Slashdot, often thought of a spiritual leader of Linux,
commented that "Hey, he's welcome to crash at my house, except that my house is
due to be repo'ed any day know due to the VA Linux stock price crash."

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