Linux Is 10 Today

genixia noted that the BBC was the first to note that Linux has turned 10 today. Happy birthday and congrats to the hackers whose labor pains keep giving us new tarballs.

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What they say...

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open source is an intellectual property destroyer
- Jim Allchin, Microsoft executive, Feb 2001

Software is like sex; it's better when it's free
- Linus Torvalds

Any sufficiently advanced Operating System is indistinguishable from Linux
- Jim Dennis

Linux... Find out what you've been missing
while you've been rebooting Windows NT.
- anon

See Linux run...
See Windows run... scared.
- anon

Microsoft will make something that doesn't suck
when it starts manufactoring vaccum cleaners.
- car bumper sticker

I thought that aliens would take over the world,
but I never suspected the Finns.
- garf@roadum.demon.co.uk

How do you power off this machine?
- Linus Torvalds, when upgrading linux.cs.helsinki.fi,
and after using the machine for several months.

The most important design issue...
is the fact that Linux is supposed to be fun...
- Linus Torvalds,
at the First Dutch International Symposium on Linux

Open-Source Architecture requires neither Windows nor Gates
- Malcolm Macsween

Linux - What itch do you want to scratch today?
- Ulrik Haugen

With Linux there is no Bill to pay
- Maurice Fonhof

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi (possibly not talking about Linux!)

Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin
really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have
never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph.
They'd be a lot more careful about what they said if they had.
- Linus Torvalds

Linux represents a best-of-breed Unix
- Vinod Valloppillil

Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates, Apache in house.
- Usenet signature

Consumers love it
- Vinod Valloppillil

The best thing about GNU/Linux is the people who use it.
- Kenneth W. Melvin

Most of the primary apps that people require when they
move to Linux are already available for free. This includes
web servers, POP clients, mail servers, text editors, etc
- Vinod Valloppillil

Don't throw your PC out of the window,
throw Windows out of your PC and run linux!
- Gernot Kerschbaumer

Linux and other OSS advocates are making a progressively
more credible argument that OSS software is at least as robust
- if not more - than commercial alternatives.
- Vinod Valloppillil

If the box says ``Windows 95 or better'', it should run on Linux, right?
- anon

Linux can win
- Vinod Valloppillil

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