Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Jan 2008 23:33 UTC, submitted by irbis
Linux 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 UTC in reply to "RE: Why is this interesting ?"
Weeman
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.

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Soulbender Member since:
2005-08-18

I don't want to know the opinion of such a guy.


So don't read the article. That's a lot simpler than first reading it and then complaining about having read it.

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Weeman Member since:
2006-03-20

So don't read the article. That's a lot simpler than first reading it and then complaining about having read it.

Not reading his article doesn't make some folks stop parroting his opinion in places where I surf.

Edited 2008-01-31 17:55 UTC

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