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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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Linus Torvalds
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Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
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I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
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All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less
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Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.
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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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So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model.
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Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.
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And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.
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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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I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.
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I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.
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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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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.
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I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.
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Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
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