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
On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.
Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.
Portability is for people who cannot write new programs
It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.
I have an ego the size of a small planet
An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.
So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model.
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.
Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.
I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board.
I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.