Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.
-- Linus Torvalds
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
-- Linus Torvalds
Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.
-- Linus Torvalds
Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but that's _my_ choice, dammit.
-- Linus Torvalds
Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I should use Linux over BSD? No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on > creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.
-- Linus Torvalds
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*".'
-- Linus Torvalds
How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it.
-- Linus Torvalds
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system.
-- Linus Torvalds
Dijkstra probably hates me
-- Linus Torvalds
And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.
-- Linus Torvalds
People just self select to do projects where they have expertise and interest.
-- Linus Torvalds
I certainly support anybody's right to modify and publish their own version of Linux, but at the same time, almost all my efforts are spent on the actual joining back of the results, and thats what most of what you'd call 'core developers' end up doing: guidance and quality control at various levels.
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