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Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
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The big thing about distributed source control is that it makes one of the main issues with SCM's go away - the politics around who can make changes. BitKeeper showed that you can avoid that by just giving everybody their own source repository.
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I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.
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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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Whoever came up with hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode should be shot.
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That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
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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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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
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I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people, too), I tend to try to not be too serious about it. And most of the time it means that I can take criticism constructively, and sometimes just change my opinion on the fly and laugh at myself over having turned on a dime.
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I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
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Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.
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I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.
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I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.
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With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.
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It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.
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Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.
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By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.
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The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.
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