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" 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. "
Linus Torvalds
Because
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Before
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" I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do. "
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" I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project. "
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" No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal. "
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" What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out. "
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" To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together. "
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" Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. "
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Doing
Done
" 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 Windows are simply so different. "
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Windows
" I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. "
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Looks
See
Interesting
" Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it. "
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Rather
Than
Hobby
" The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal. "
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Possible
Love
" In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved. "
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You
Feel
" I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up. "
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I Can
Way
Try
" I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. "
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Home
Politics
Lying
" I don't see myself as a visionary at all. "
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See
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" Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'. "
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Design
Socks
Fashion
" 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 I hang out with are all really engineers. "
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Valley
Pretty
Image
" It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring. "
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Boring
Doing
Personality
" I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product. "
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Manager
Successful
Like
" 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 to call it just plain Linux and nothing more. "
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Important
People
Nothing
" Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them. "
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System
Get
" Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. "
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Free
Software
" Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer. "
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Geek
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Name
I Am
" The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. "
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Children
Memory
Small
" I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. "
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Goals
Think
Visionary
" 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 to do the testing. "
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Interesting
People
Want
" I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can. "
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I Can
Just
Other
" I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area. "
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People
Over
Think
" In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. "
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Destiny
Control
Own