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If you like using CVS, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else.

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Linus Torvalds
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
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