Linus Torvalds Is Now a U.S. Citizen
Writing on the Linux kernel mailing list yesterday, Torvalds offhandedly mentioned that he would test something “in a bit – I need to go do voter registration and socsec update first, though – I became a US citizen last week.”
Torvalds touched on this ground before in a 2008 blog post:
Yeah, yeah, we should probably have done the citizenship thing a long time ago, since we’ve been here long enough (and two of the kids are US citizens by virtue of being born here), but anybody who has had dealings with the INS will likely want to avoid any more of them, and maybe things have gotten better with a new name and changes, but nothing has really made me feel like I really need that paperwork headache again.
Well: Paperwork headache reckoned with. Congrats to Torvalds on his citizenship.
(Network World via Slashdot)
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