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Linux Quotes by Linus Torvalds
- A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of…
- We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
- One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat…
- So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would…
- I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out…
- All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less
- I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ...…
- I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people…
- The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general.…
- Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen…
- 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.…
- If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
- There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how…
- The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
- Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
- 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…
- I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
- That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
- I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.
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- Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. — Steve Ballmer
- It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. — Bill Gates
- Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux. — Bill Hayden
- We can build a better product than Linux, — Jim Allchin
- The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and… — John Carmack