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.
From Linus Torvalds
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.
I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.
Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.
I don't see myself as a visionary at all.
I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.
I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
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.
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.
There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.
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