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We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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The Linux philosophy is laugh in the face of danger. Oops. Wrong one. Do it yourself. That's it.
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If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.
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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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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 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 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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In many cases the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.
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To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
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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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