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The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
Linus Torvalds
Management
Children
Memory
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
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Evil
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
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Linux
Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.
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Linux
Sense
The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
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Linux
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.
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Care
Linux
Tribute
Want
What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.
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Commercialism
Linux
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
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Intelligence
Work
Ability
When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.
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Life
Needs
Software
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."
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People
Windows
Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
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Questions