Frasi di Linus Torvalds (165 frasi, pagina 4)

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.
Attributa a Torvalds alla conferenza della Free Software Foundation del 1996 ( video http://www.argentilinux.com.ar/doku.php/linux_videos_documentales:the_code_linux – time code: 48.44).
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Linus Torvalds: Frasi in inglese

“I'd like to say that I knew this would happen, that it's all part of the plan for world domination.”

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[Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, The Linux Edge, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/linus.html, 2006-08-28, 1-56592-582-3, 1999, O'Reilly & Associates, DiBona, C]
1990s, 1995-99

“Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say.”

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[In response to http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/07/northeast_portland_man_who_str.html]
2010s, 2012

“I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.”

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Attributed
Origine: Desktop_architects list, 2007.8.3 https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2007-August/002446.html

“See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too;-)”

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Post, comp.os.linux.development.system newsgroup, Google Groups, 1996-07-05, Torvalds, Linus, 2016-05-25 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.development.system/EG3iv5IcC3Y/6d_v3HZUZLYJ,
1990s, 1995-99

“Dijkstra probably hates me.”

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Comment in Linux kernel 1.1.42's kernel/sched.c file, 2006-08-28 http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v1.1/42/kernel/sched.c,
2000s, 2006

“Lawsuits destroy community. They destroy trust. They would destroy all the goodwill we've built up over the years by being nice.”

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https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2016-August/003580.html
2010s, 2017

“I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.”

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LKML, April 21, 2006 http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/0aff8e90a185c176
2000s, 2006

“There are "extremists" in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do "free software" any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred.”

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Microsoft Patches Linux; Linus Responds, 2009-06-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2009-06-26 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7439,
2000s, 2009

“[GPL] version 3 was not a good "here we give you version 2" and then we try to sneak in this new rules and try force everyone to upgrade; that was the part I disliked. The FSF did really sneaky stuff, downright immoral in my opinion.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8&t=49m37s
DebConf 14: Q&A with Linus Torvalds
DebConf 2014 Portland
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2014
Daniel Gillmore, Ana Guerrerero López.
2010s, 2014

“I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.”

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unknown, news:[email protected], Post, news:comp.os.minix, Google Groups, 1991-08-25, 2006-08-28, Torvalds, Linus http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=1991Aug25.205708.9541%40klaava.Helsinki.FI, This was the launch of Linux.
1990s, 1991-94

“Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.”

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
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2000s, 2007

“If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.”

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Post to comp.os.linux.advocacy newsgroup, 1996-07-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=4sv02t%24j8g%40linux.cs.Helsinki.FI,
1990s, 1995-99

“My personal opinion of Mach is not very high. Frankly, it's a piece of crap. It contains all the design mistakes you can make, and even managed to make up a few of its own.”

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2000s, (2001)

“The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.”

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Linus' blog: Black and white, 2008-11-02, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-11-02 http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/11/black-and-white.html,
2000s, 2008

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

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Attributed
Origine: quoted by Alan Cox here http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.system/msg/dc45421fdef2aaa1?pli=1

“Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not black-and-white.)”

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2000s, 2005

“Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not "evil" or "immoral," it just doesn't matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it's not a crusade – it's just a superior way of working together and generating code.”

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2000s, 2007

“I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.”

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Message to Linux kernel mailing list, 2006-09-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-06-07 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/22/319,
2000s, 2006

“I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" – anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense "the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context").”

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LKML, September 28, 2006 http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/892dc13a2f4c5483
2000s, 2006

“People say that you should not micro-optimize. But if what you love is micro-optimization… that's what you should do.”

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2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012

“WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!”

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Linus Torvalds - LKML, Torvalds, Linus, 2012-12-23, 2012-12-29 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75,
2010s, 2012

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

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Message, linux-kernel mailing list, IU, 1996-07-20, Torvalds, Linus, 2014-04-26 http://www.webcitation.org/6P8EBZqQX,
1990s, 1995-99

“Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small trivial project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you'll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision. So start small, and think about the details. Don't think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn't solve some fairly immediate need, it's almost certainly over-designed. And don't expect people to jump in and help you. That's not how these things work. You need to get something half-way useful first, and then others will say "hey, that almost works for me", and they'll get involved in the project.”

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Origine: Linux Times, 2004-10-25 http://web.archive.org/web/20050404020308/http://www.linuxtimes.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=145,

“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.”

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2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012

“I allege that SCO is full of it.”

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Linux Defended, Galli, Peter, 2003-06-23, 2008-03-01, eWeek http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Linux-Defended,
2000s, 2000-04

“Because if you want me to "act professional", I can tell you that I'm not interested. I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm *also* not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because THAT is what "acting professionally" results in: people resort to all kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their normal urges in unnatural ways.”

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<nowiki>Re: [ 00/19 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137392506516022&w=2, 3.10.1-stable review</nowiki>, Torvalds, Linus, 2013-07-15, 2013-07-17]
2010s, 2013

“C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.”

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Message to gmane.comp.version-control.git mailing list, 2007-09-07, Torvalds, Linus, 2007-09-22 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643,
2000s, 2007

“I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right […].”

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Re: clarification on git, central repositories and commit access lists, 20 Aug 2007, Linux Weekly News, [email protected], 2007-12-28 http://lwn.net/Articles/246381/,
2000s, 2007