Finnish - Businessman | December 28, 1969 -
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Linus Torvalds
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Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.
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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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In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
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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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No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.
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There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.
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Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
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The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
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Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.
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