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Because Quotes by Linus Torvalds
- I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it.…
- I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not…
- 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.
- 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…
- Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they…
- I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'
- If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.
- Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
- I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people…
- In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have…
- 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…
- When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my…
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