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A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat - and there are a number of other Linux companies going public - basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area.
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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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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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Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
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Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.
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The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12 and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong.
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People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.
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There are extremists in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do free software any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred.
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I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
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Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
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The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
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Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.
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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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A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
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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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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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We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
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If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.
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I think the term intellectual property should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.
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My name is Linus, and I am your God.
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