Approach Quote by Linus Torvalds

“It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.”

Linus Torvalds

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Approach Ends Harder Humiliation Open source People Sides Source Worry

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I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

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