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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Member since:2005-12-15
I'd much prefer to hear about what Linus has to say than perhaps Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer. Linus seems to be far more reasonable and less of a tyrant seeking money.
Besides, who can take someone like Ballmer seriously? Have you seen how he enters the stage like a rock star? Was 'developers developers developers developers developers' actually planned to be said or was he just stuttering? Come on.
RE[3]: Why is this interesting ?
Member since:2007-08-10
He is every bit as important as both of them, his code speaks volumes.
Did you read the interview?
"Well for the last few years all I have really done is communicate. I end up merging other people's code. I actually seldom write code myself..."
So he's more like the Jobs and/or Gates of Linux
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i've always enjoyed his interview and his biography was really good -
anyways what i liked about this interview is his view on virtualization. I like vmware because i can run windows and linux on the same machine so I was a little puzzled when in the summary it said that he thought it was hype...but linus was just saying that virtualization is just not for him - where Steve jobs and bill gates would be spazzing all out about this even if they didn't use it..and then when linus said that just because virtualization wasn't for him didn;t mean that linux wouldn't spuuort it just shows how strong linux is.
BDH
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2005-11-12
Bill Gates and Steve jobs can talk like salesman but Linus is the main man actually doing the coding we use to power Linux.
He is every bit as important as both of them, his code speaks volumes.