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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. "

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" 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

" 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. "

" That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle. "

" Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.' "

" I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. "

Linus Torvalds

Been

University

" I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Linus Torvalds

End

Know

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

" 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. "

" Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it. "

" If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad. "

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

" My name is Linus, and I am your God. "

" 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

" In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself. "

" I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior. "

" 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. "

" The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. "

" 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. "

" 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 lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names. "

" In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. "