Linux Quotes - Page 4

• I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board.

  Linus Torvalds

  Special, Different, Boards

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• What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

  Linus Torvalds

  Motivation, Taken, People

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• Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

  Linus Torvalds

  Trying, Disaster, Has Beens

  "A Conversation With Linus Torvalds, Who Built The World's Most Robust Operating System And Gave It Away For Free". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2014.

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• Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.

  Bruce Perens

  Vcr, Want, Wells

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• We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

  Darl McBride

  Talking, Showing Up, Code

  "UPDATE: CRN Interview: SCO CEO Defends $1 Billion Lawsuit Against IBM". Interview with Paula Rooney, www.crn.com. April 24, 2003.

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• We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.

  Darl McBride

  Lines, Today, Code

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• Linux doesn't have IP roots.

  Darl McBride

  Roots

  "UPDATE: CRN Interview: SCO CEO Defends $1 Billion Lawsuit Against IBM". Interview with Paula Rooney, www.crn.com. April 24, 2003.

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• When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we directly own or is related to one of our flavors of Unix that we have derivative works rights over--we don't necessarily own those flavors, but we have control rights over how that information gets disseminated--the amount is substantial. We're not talking about just lines of code; we're talking about entire programs. We're talking about hundred [sic] of thousands of lines of code.

  Darl McBride

  Rights, Views, Talking

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• It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.

  Gabe Newell

  Teaching, Playing Games, Rome

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• Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

  Richard Stallman

  Different, Littles, Androids

  "Is Android really free software?" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model.

  Linus Torvalds

  Support, Would Be, Able

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• A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of the most important things for Linux is having a big community that is actively testing new kernels; it's the only way to support the absolute insane amount of different hardware we deal with.

  Linus Torvalds

  Self Worth, Views, Numbers

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• I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who are having a lot of fun with them. But if you want to move the needle on the non-Microsoft desktop, youve got to look elsewhere.

  Nat Friedman

  Fun, Moving, Home

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• The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.

  John Carmack

  Cds, Skills, Tools

  "Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture". Book by David Kushner, May 6, 2003.

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• We can build a better product than Linux.

  Jim Allchin

  Products

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• 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.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Way, Projects

  "Reclusive Linux founder opens up". Interview with Kristie Lu Stout, edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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• 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.

  Linus Torvalds

  Zero, Way, Interest

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• I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

  Linus Torvalds

  Technology, Evil, Microsoft

  "THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 9-28-03: QUESTIONS FOR LINUS TORVALDS; The Sharer". Interview with David Diamond, www.nytimes.com. September 28, 2003.

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• I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

  Linus Torvalds

  Authority, Notion, Knows

  "Leader of the Free World" by Gary Rivlin, www.wired.com. November 01, 2003.

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• Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.

  James Surowiecki

  People, Effort, Example

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• There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.

  Linus Torvalds

  Innovation, Proud, Operating Systems

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• I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

  Donald Knuth

  Memories, Jewels, Ubuntu

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• Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Senior, Today, Internet

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• I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.

  Linus Torvalds

  Taken, Annoying, Hell

  "Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds". Q&A session with the audience at the panel at Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) in Otaniemi, www.youtube.com. June 14, 2012.

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• There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels

  Richard Stallman

  Kernel

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