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People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .
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Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.
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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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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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If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.
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Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.
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I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.
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In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
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Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
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While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.
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Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.
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If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system.
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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.
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One of the reasons I like open source is that it allows people to work on the parts they are good at, and I don't mean just on a technical level some people are into the whole selling and support, and that's just not me.
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What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.
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I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.
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Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.
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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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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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