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Linus Torvalds

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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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The complaints I've had is that GitHub as a development platform - making commits, pull requests, keeping track of issues etc - doesn't work very well at all. It's not even close, not for something like the kernel. It's much too limited.
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I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.
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It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.
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Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.
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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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Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
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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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Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
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Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.
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Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.
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When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.
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Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.
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When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.
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I 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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Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
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I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this.
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What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.
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In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
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The cyberspace 'earnings' I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.
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