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" I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming. "

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Linus Torvalds

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Love

" I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs. "

" I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. "

" I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job. "

" Software is like sex: it's better when it's free. "

Linus Torvalds

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Free

" What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt. "

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

" 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. "

" I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly. "

" I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board. "

Linus Torvalds

Direction

You

" Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. "

" 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. "

" I don't see myself as a visionary at all. "

" 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. "

" I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat. "

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

" To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. "

" No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal. "

" The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. "

" Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well. "

" The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies. "

Linus Torvalds

Feeling

Fame

" Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all. "

" 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. "

" I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project. "

" I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference. "

" 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. "

" See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too. "