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" I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself. "

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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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" 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 good Linux is. "

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" Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral. "

" I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. "

" 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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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed. "

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" The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail. "

" Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense. "