Torvalds's Former Company Transmeta Acquired and Gone

desmondhaynes sends along a posting from the TechWatch blog detailing the sale of Transmeta (most recently discussed here). Linus moved ten time-zones west, from Finland to Santa Clara, CA, to join Transmeta in March 1997, before this community existed. Here is our discussion of the announcement of the Crusoe processor from 2000. Our earliest discussion of Transmeta was the 13th Slashdot story. "Transmeta, once a sparkling startup that set out to beat Intel and AMD in mobile computing, announced that it will be acquired by Novafora. The company's most famous employee, Linux inventor Linus Torvalds, kept the buzz and rumor mill about the company throughout its stealth phase alive and guaranteed a flashy technology announcement in early 2000. Almost nine years later Transmeta's journey is over." Update: 11/21 16:25 GMT by KD : It's not the 13th Slashdot story, only the 13th currently in the database. We lost the first 4 months at one point.

I refuse to believe....

[Anonymous Coward]

that something Linus worked on was a failure.

You mean he's human after all?

Oh the humanity.

Re:I have a tiny, tiny penis

[khallow]

For me, the real problem is that when you sacrificing babies using Linux, they all have to be sacrificed to GPL dieties. This makes the GPL a real ball and chain. With Windows, your baby sacrificing is less constrained. Sure you need to tithe a modest 80% of your baby sacrifices to the dark lords of Redmond, but the rest can be to whomever you desire as long as it's not an open source diety. So seriously, what's not to love with Windows? And the UI is so much better.

The 13th Slashdot story?

[Crizp]

Makes me feel old... oh wait I am. Crap.

Re:Your are full of shit!

[Orion Blastar]

"morong" at least he can spell correctly. :)

Re:Anybody else think that...

[RMH101]

Note to Alanis Morisette: Rain on your wedding day is only ironic if you're marrying a weatherman