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The Linux philosophy is laugh in the face of danger. Oops. Wrong one. Do it yourself. That's it.
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.
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Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.
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I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .
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I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.
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I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
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There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works but only want to use it is not only a tribute to how good Linux is, but it also brings up issues that I would never have thought of otherwise.
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You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.
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