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

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

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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.

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

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Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

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You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

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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.

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People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting that's how some software projects are born.

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Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

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There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.

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

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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.

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In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

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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.

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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'.

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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.

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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.

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I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume Linux looks pretty good in many places.

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Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different people here really live on the edge.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

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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.

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