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"Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?"
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"[GPL] version 3 was not a good "here we give you version 2" and then we try to sneak in this new rules and try force everyone to upgrade; that was the part I disliked. The FSF did really sneaky stuff, downright immoral in my opinion."
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Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991. He also created the distributed version control system Git.
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"Portability is for people who cannot write new programs."
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"Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong?"
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"This whole ARM thing is a f*cking pain in the ass."
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"In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you wont end up like the Hurd people."
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