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
I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.
I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.
I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.
I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.
I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.
OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.
Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.
The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.
If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.
Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.
I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.