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- 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…
- If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.
- 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.…
- An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want…
- 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…
- I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.
- 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…
- If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.
- Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.
- I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies…
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