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Top 10 Linus Quotes on SCO

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the worth-a-gander dept.

An anonymous reader noted LinuxWorld running an entertaining little Top Ten SCO-related "Linusisms. If you're new to the story, you might find these insightful... but you're reading this site on a sunday, so you probably will find them more amusing than informative.

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  1. demigod by potpie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Linus, as awesome as I thought he was before, has definitely risen from "personal hero" to "demigod."

    Any company that attempts to hijack an entire open operating system as its own deserves whatever punishments and/or mockery Linus and legislation can dole out.

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    Esoteric reference.
  2. In all fairness... by cperciva · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "With open source, there is a lot of daylight. A lot of people looking at the code. You don't really go around and steal things."

    With open source, lots of people are looking at the code. If there's a bug, people will find it (well, that's the theory, at least).

    I'm not convinced that lots of people are looking at where the code came from. To take FreeBSD Update as an example, I've engaged in lots of lengthy discussions about technical issues, but nobody has ever asked "did you write this code yourself?"

    --
    Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
  3. Re:Another reason to like Linux... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Curiously, I don't find him all that more (or less) witty than most people I know, hackers or not, geeks or not.

    However he certainly doesn't have the corporate image to upkeep like Gates, Ballmer, McBride, whoever. He's just like a normal guy I might hang out with for a while.

    The fact he's STILL like that is why I think he's pretty neat.