Finnish - Businessman | December 28, 1969 -
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.
Linus Torvalds
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The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
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I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.
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When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'
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My name is Linus, and I am your God.
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Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
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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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Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.
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I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
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I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.
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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.
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I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.
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