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I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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