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Linus Torvalds' Benevolent Dictatorship

treebeard77 writes "BusinessWeek has posted Linus Torvalds interview ' The creator of Linux says "I can't be nasty" when leading the open-source movement since it's all built on trust and teamwork' "

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  1. OT: Is this theme new? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Like the glassy black bars!

  2. hear ye by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    meow mix is good on toast

  3. FR!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I got first reply on the first post!

  4. For those of you with eyestrain (like myself) by AKAImBatman · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Here's a link to the story in normal colors. There's a reason why some colors are considered "primaries" and others "secondaries".

  5. As opposed to Theo de Raadt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Go Theo. OpenBSD rocks, but upgrading packages and sources does not.

  6. Re:I for one welcome our new benevolent overlord by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Whoopie Goldberg: "ditto? what the hell is ditto?"

  7. fp by codergeek42 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    f1rst ps0t

  8. Re:The hard part is over... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now we just have to get Mr. Gates to admit he is a money hungry piece of shit

    Him and 95% of the rest of the World. Do we hate Gates so much because he is evil or because he suceeded where the rest of us have failed.

  9. I for one.... by Seraphim_72 · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    ...Welcome our Torvoldian Overlord....

    Sera

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  10. maybe linus wont be nasty... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but ill sure get nasty with his kernel!

    linux- the only non-popcorn kernel that still gets salted.

  11. Must not make bad joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I for one welcome our benevolent Finnish overlords /couldn't help it

  12. Re:No... we hate Gates because by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He won the lottery. The big lottery. The IBM PC lottery and has done nothing with with except make more crappy software. Gates is not the one of the world's richest people because he is smarter, he is one of the richest becasue IBM was dumb.

  13. Re:The hard part is over... by NIN1385 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Looks like someone is a microsoft lover... if you dont like my comments...ignore them

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  14. Slashdot mderators are scumsucking vermin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The moderators here on slashdot are the most vile scusucking vermin that have ever walked the earth. this should be moderated as funny but some ignorant dickhead calles it flaimbait. hey moderators fuck you, your a bunch of incompetant morons. hey CMDR Taco revamp the moderator system its failing horribly.

  15. Re:Linus' words = gospel... by wikdwarlock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Guilty as charged.

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  16. Re:RMS was quoted as saying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    +10, Funny!

  17. Offtopic?! by Apathetic1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Oh come on now. Did whoever modded this offtopic even read the parent post? This is about as on-topic as you can get.

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  18. Mod Parent +Funny by handy_vandal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As long as i have TCP/IP over parrots, i'm fine. I wonder how many times you would have to say http://slashdot.org to a parrot before he can repeat it and pass the message on to the next parrot on the next island.

    Made me laugh!

    -kgj

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  19. Benevolent Crustascean Overlord by gelfling · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's as good a lame analogy as anyone else's around here.

    Linus is the Lobster.

  20. Re:Linus' words = gospel... by wikdwarlock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Canadian? Umm...nope :) Corn fed, born-n-raised, Midwestern male here. I included the votefordubbya.ca in one of my posts as an example only.

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  21. You know what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't get it.

  22. Re:RMS was quoted as saying by bman08 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've always liked 'black and bitter' or 'ground up in the freezer'.

  23. Re:OpenBSD by yuri+benjamin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You just gotta develop the dutch thick skin to deal with dutch bluntness. Once you get used to it you'll see it as a virtue.

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