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good but you forgot a couple.

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

I think we have to stop ridiculing Windows. Altho I am a linux fanboy (Ubuntu and SME Server), I admit that windows, in the hands of knowledgeable IT staff and users, is tremendously useful & productive.

Yes there are viruses, but then again the real disruption is just few days per year. The rest of the year is really productive (Windows + Office).

Compared to Linux, yes, there are NO viruses but the users & staff spend 300 days a year tinkling & experimenting. By the time they got a nearly workable solution, hey! the new version of this linux is out and we should try it because it solves this and that problems.

Rinse and repeat the above linux scenario for the next 5 years and you will have crippled staff in your office.

On a Linux Cruise, I asked Torvalds about his "Software is like Sex, it's better when it's free" quote, and he told me that the first time he said it, a voice from the back of the room piped up to say "How do you know?" Heh.

6. Or they never played Tux racer.

You forgot "We should make it a law that all geeks have dates."

Linus is a witty Finn and a great coder. I love reading the mailing lists.

Linus:
When I'm ruler of the universe, it *will* be illegal.
I'm just getting a bit ahead of myself.

Jan:
Any time frame when that will happen?

Linux:
I'm working on it, I'm working on it.
I'm just as frustrated as you are.
It turns out to be a non-trivial problem.

[lkml, Oct 3, 2007]

For some (read: lots of) more quotes:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

Linus torvals said:

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

I guess that's the reason why after 17 years we are all still using Windows. Better a crappy OS that does what I need than a technically awesome one that only geeks want to use.

9 & 10 are rubbish comments how the frack did they get into this list? The rest are gold.

"During this talk, by definition, everybody who disagrees [with me] is, stupid and ugly."

[About SVN] "Branching is not the issue, merging is. And merging they did not do squat for, 5 years after the fact."

"That's what it's all about - they did all the work for me. So... and I take the credit. Now I just need to figure out step three, "Profit", right?"

Brilliant compilation.

Gotta love the trolls. I love Linux when it works. I would love to see Windows if it worked.

Linus Torvalds, the king, the best ever! =D

Very good,

LINUX IS IT NEVER GET DOWN.

"Computers work like air conditioning systems, it defeats the purpose of using them when Windows are open."
Linus Torvalds

Here's another couple of quotes:

"If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
use it."

"Gnome seems
to be developed by interface nazis, where consistently the excuse for not
doign something is not "it's too complicated to do", but "it would confuse
users"."

I loved it when LInus was talking about Gnome vs KDE.

..."do you woant me tew toalk?..."

..."nooo mistaa Boond, I woant yew tew DIE!"...

the best one is .. "Talk is cheap. Show me the code"

My number #1 Linus Quote is:

If you have ever done any security work; and it did not involve the concept of 'network of trust'; it wasn't security work, it was masturbation.

My god? More like my dog, bitch.

"I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."

couldn't be truer ... what's up with 9 & 10 above, very bad quotes

"I guess that's the reason why after 17 years we are all still using Windows. Better a crappy OS that does what I need than a technically awesome one that only geeks want to use."

Trust me, you want to use Linux, you just don't know it yet. I am convinced that the average user who says they either can't or don't want to run Linux either hasn't tried or has the brain of a trained monkey. It's like comparing a man made drainage ditch to the Grand Canyon.

“My name is Linus, and I am your God.” --- I HATE THIS COMMENT ... F***** U but still i like linux os

An of course:

"Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)"

The man is not only a genius, he is generous. The man rocked the software world. Open Source Rox !!

Linux is so popular it exists on less than 2% of desktops worldwide. It is so great that it is only recommended by psychotic fanboys who compare it to the Grand Canyon. It is so stable and well supported that every Fortune 500 company I have worked for that has hired teams of Linux Guru's have gone back to Windows in under twelve months due to lack of support, and horrendous downtimes and revenue loss. Great operating system though, really.

There is certainly something to be said for proprietary software. Centralized support, chain of responsibility, far superior documentation, and standardized interfacing to name a few.

Brian is clearly deranged. I've worked in plenty of companies where 'Brians' existed - people who get less downtime out of windows because they havent a clue about UNIX and cock it up ... but they *can* follow the pretty pictures and ...

I have a Windows EE box. Exchange 2003 EE, and 2 instances of SQL EE running concurrently. System maintenance requiring downtime ocurrs once per year. 4 year old machine, no problems.

Windows, like Linux, can be very stable if you know what the hell you're doing.

Linux is cool and powerful. I find it diluted by the numerous distributions. Quite a few open source projects prefer one distro over another and make life quite painful at times. Who wants to learn the subtleties of half a dozen OSes?

Dell loves Ubuntu, Asterisk loves CentOs, SuSE, Debian, BSD, Mandriva...

Asif. At least Microsoft has commited to one distro and sought to invest for interop