Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Jan 2008 23:33 UTC, submitted by irbis
He doesn't own a mobile phone and he is proud of it. And he thinks virtualization is over-hyped. Find out what else we prize from Linux guru Linus Torvalds. "Linux has done what I wanted it to do for the last fifteen years, literally. So since very early on my motivation actually came from the outside: my motivation came from problems that other people see. I don't see the problems, my usage model is actually fairly simple and it's still the same development model that I tend to concentrate on. So I am actually motivated by other people's issues, and sometimes they make me go 'those people are just crazy, that's just insane', but sometimes the crazy people have some of the most interesting problems too."
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RE[2]: Why is this interesting ?
by Weeman on Thu 31st Jan 2008 17:47
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Member since:2006-03-20
Linus is a celebrity. A wise celebrity. Thats why people care about his opinion.
I don't consider him wise. I think he's an arrogant asshole who's a bit full of himself. He did a nice effort with his Linux kernel, but other than that, he has absolutely no social skill. Either he likes something, which ain't a lot of things, or it's immediately outright shit and makes a lot of backhanded comments about said subject. No such thing as grey areas in his opinions. I don't want to know the opinion of such a guy.
RE[3]: Why is this interesting ?
by Soulbender on Thu 31st Jan 2008 17:50
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2006-10-28
Linus is a celebrity. A wise celebrity. Thats why people care about his opinion.
BTW - I'm sort of biased; I'm a fan of him because 95% of the time his unusual opinion matches up with mine. Eg. I don't own a mobile phone either (got tired of mine and gave it away) and I prefer lots of old computers instead of one powerful computer with virtual systems on it.