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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.
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The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
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My name is Linus, and I am your God.
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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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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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This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
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I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
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One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.
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I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.
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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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I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
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Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
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The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.
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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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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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Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.
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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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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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I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the tech market and is used virtually everywhere is obviously very personally satisfying. I think programming is fun, and the community around the kernel is great, but a project has to be relevant too.
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