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Linus Torvalds

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


— Linus Torvalds


#even #linux #lot #made #materialistic

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


— Linus Torvalds


#definitely #did #ever #i #linux

My name is Linus, and I am your God.


— Linus Torvalds


#god #i #i am #name #your

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


— Linus Torvalds


#questions #sometimes

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.


— Linus Torvalds


#combine #commercial #free #free software #shareware

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


— Linus Torvalds


#effort #feedback #good #linux #makes

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


#although #came #did #enable #fame

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


— Linus Torvalds


#danger #face #laugh #linux #philosophy

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


— Linus Torvalds


#always #been #customers #developers #important

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


— Linus Torvalds


#free #like #sex #software






About Linus Torvalds

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Did you know about Linus Torvalds?

From 1997 to 1999 he was involved in 86open helping to choose the standard binary format for Linux and Unix. 0 was a "disaster" because of its lack of maturity and so he had switched to GNOME by 2009. Torvalds also commented in 2005 on the official GNOME developmental mailing lists that he encouraged users to switch to K Desktop Environment 3 rather than use GNOME.

Linus Benedict Torvalds (Swedish: [ˈliːn. He was honored along with Shinya Yamanaka with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel".

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