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Linus Torvalds

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Linus Torvalds

(1969–) · Finnish/American Software Engineer

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991. He also created the distributed version control system Git.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.
Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.
Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.
I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.
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.'
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 thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.