Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds; born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and, for a long time, principal developer, of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for operating systemssuch as GNU and years later Android and Chrome OS. He also created the distributed revision control system git and the diving logging and planning software Subsurface. He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "in recognition...
NationalityFinnish
ProfessionEngineer
Date of Birth28 December 1969
CityHelsinki, Finland
CountryFinland
The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.
The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.
I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.
And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?
I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] ... but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.
It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.
I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'
I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.
I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.