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" I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other. "
Linus Torvalds
Two
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Right
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" By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them. "
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" People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born. "
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" No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal. "
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" I don't see myself as a visionary at all. "
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" A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. "
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" 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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" See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too. "
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" 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 get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many. "
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" The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return. "
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