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Software is like sex: it's better when it's free. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

Software patents are a huge potential threat to the ability of people to work together on open source. Making it easier for companies and communities that have patents to make those patents available in a common pool for people to use is one way to try to help developers deal with the threat. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

Software patents are a huge potential threat to the ability of people to work together on open source. Making it easier for companies and communities that have patents to make those patents available in a common pool for people to use is one way to try to help developers deal with the threat.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done - Linus Torvalds Quotes

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product, - Linus Torvalds Quotes

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product,

Given enoug eyeballs, all thugs are callow. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

Given enoug eyeballs, all thugs are callow.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too - Linus Torvalds Quotes

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too

The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing.

My name is Linus, and I am your God. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

When you say

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."

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

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 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

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 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

Grace

Some people have been seen as freeloaders, selling Linux CDs and hardware and making money that way, ... But they're doing Linux a big favor by making it easier to install and approachable to normal people. It makes it a more viable OS. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

Some people have been seen as freeloaders, selling Linux CDs and hardware and making money that way, ... But they're doing Linux a big favor by making it easier to install and approachable to normal people. It makes it a more viable OS.

Money

didn't really think there was that much tension between the commercial side and the technical side of Linux. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

didn't really think there was that much tension between the commercial side and the technical side of Linux.

I don't expect the desktop to come quickly. It will take time, - Linus Torvalds Quotes

I don't expect the desktop to come quickly. It will take time,

Do I see fragmentation for the Linux kernel? There is certainly going to be some of that. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

Do I see fragmentation for the Linux kernel? There is certainly going to be some of that.

The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. You think v2 or later is the default. It's not. The _default_ is to not allow conversion. Conversion isn't going to happen. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. You think v2 or later is the default. It's not. The _default_ is to not allow conversion. Conversion isn't going to happen.

The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files can be licensed under version 3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files can be licensed under version 3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing.

One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat -- and there are a number of other Linux companies going public -- basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat -- and there are a number of other Linux companies going public -- basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area.

Money

We were on a nine to 12 month schedule to deliver [Version] 2.4, but it will end up being more like 18 months since we delivered [version] 2.2. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

We were on a nine to 12 month schedule to deliver [Version] 2.4, but it will end up being more like 18 months since we delivered [version] 2.2.

I was going to start with a lawyer joke, but I'm told it was already done yesterday, - Linus Torvalds Quotes

I was going to start with a lawyer joke, but I'm told it was already done yesterday,

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about ... public humiliation. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about ... public humiliation.

The primary issue is just to make people comfortable with Linux. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

The primary issue is just to make people comfortable with Linux.

Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.

I don't use GNOME, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

I don't use GNOME, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

Children Quotes

It probably was just a mistake on the part of some headhunter who just didn't know who (Raymond) was. It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the other side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

It probably was just a mistake on the part of some headhunter who just didn't know who (Raymond) was. It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the other side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

Behavior Quotes

It's not really about Linux vs. Microsoft, it's about something you really, really have fun with and lets others have fun as well. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

It's not really about Linux vs. Microsoft, it's about something you really, really have fun with and lets others have fun as well.

Fun

Now, most of you are probably going to be totally bored out of your minds on Christmas day, and here's the perfect distraction. Test 2.6.15-rc7. All the stores will be closed, and there's really nothing better to do in between meals. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

Now, most of you are probably going to be totally bored out of your minds on Christmas day, and here's the perfect distraction. Test 2.6.15-rc7. All the stores will be closed, and there's really nothing better to do in between meals.

I also don't necessarily like DRM myself. ButÃ¢â¬Â¦I'm an 'Oppenheimer,' and I refuse to play politics with Linux, and I think you can use Linux for whatever you want toÃ¢â¬âwhich very much includes things I don't necessarily personally approve of. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

I also don't necessarily like DRM myself. ButÃ¢â¬Â¦I'm an 'Oppenheimer,' and I refuse to play politics with Linux, and I think you can use Linux for whatever you want toÃ¢â¬âwhich very much includes things I don't necessarily personally approve of.

Conversion isn't going to happen. I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

Conversion isn't going to happen. I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code.

I think a lot of people may find that the GPLv3 'anti-DRM' measures aren't all that wonderful after all. Digital signatures and cryptography aren't just 'bad DRM.' They very much are 'good security' too. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

I think a lot of people may find that the GPLv3 'anti-DRM' measures aren't all that wonderful after all. Digital signatures and cryptography aren't just 'bad DRM.' They very much are 'good security' too.

I also don't necessarily like DRM myself. ButI'm an 'Oppenheimer,' and I refuse to play politics with Linux, and I think you can use Linux for whatever you want towhich very much includes things I don't necessarily personally approve of. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

I also don't necessarily like DRM myself. ButI'm an 'Oppenheimer,' and I refuse to play politics with Linux, and I think you can use Linux for whatever you want towhich very much includes things I don't necessarily personally approve of.

Linux

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. - Linus Torvalds Quotes

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

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