Quotes About Torvalds

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and their it all happened

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

Linux. Torvalds did not immediately publicize a very broad and ambitious goal

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

Torvalds and Eric Raymond began to use, open-source software, which emphasized the pragmatic goal of getting people to collaborate in order to create software more effectively.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.