Linus Torvalds
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Linus Benedict Torvalds, född 28 december 1969, finlandssvensk hackare och skapare av Linux. Bor sedan ett antal år tillbaka i USA med fru och barn och jobbar sedan 2003 för OSDL (Open Source Development Labs).
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Citat
- "First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, it's a great symbolic gesture." /usr/src/linux/Documentation/CodingStyle
- "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it." 1996, [1] (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.LNX.3.91.960720095713.20645F-100000%40linux.cs.Helsinki.FI)
- "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had." 1996, [2] (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=cola-liw-834355743-12037-0%40liw.clinet.fi)
- "Portability is for people who cannot write new programs." 1992, [3] (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1992Jan29.231426.20469%40klaava.Helsinki.FI)
- "There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong." 2004, [4] (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_05/b3868110_mz063.htm)
- "Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well." 2000, [5] (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=fa.im1o33v.3no50j%40ifi.uio.no)
- "In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people." 2001, [6] (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.33.0110040842320.8350-100000%40penguin.transmeta.com)
- "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." 2003, [7] (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/magazine/WLN104109.html)
- People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work if it just results in what I consider to be a better system."
- "The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children."
- "I can't help it I'm a technology whore..." om att han bytt till en Mac (som han fått gratis). 2005, [8] (http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39128514,00.htm)
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Böcker
- Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (2001) (med David Diamond)
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Externa länkar
- Linus hemsida (http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~torvalds)
- Intervju (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2736), mars 1994
- The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ (http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/)
