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Linus Torvalds

Date de naissance: 28. décembre 1969
Autres noms:लाइनस टोर्भाल्ड्स्, Линус торвалдс

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Linus Benedict Torvalds, né le 28 décembre 1969 à Helsinki en Finlande, est un informaticien américano-finlandais.

Il est connu pour avoir créé en 1991 le noyau Linux dont il continue de diriger le développement. Il en est considéré comme le « dictateur bienveillant ».

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Citations Linus Torvalds

„Je réalise aussi que _tout le monde_ pense avoir raison et être soutenu par toutes les autres personnes de bon sens. C'est comme ça que les gens fonctionnent. On pense tous qu'on vaut mieux que la moyenne.“

— Linus Torvalds

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„Il ne fait aucun doute qu'IBM constitue le plus grand coup de Linux.“

— Linus Torvalds

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„Regrettez-vous les bons jours de minix-1.1, quand les hommes étaient des hommes et écrivaient leurs propres pilotes de périphérique?“

— Linus Torvalds

„Je suis en train de faire un système d'exploitation (libre) (seulement un hobby, ne sera pas grand et professionnel comme gnu) pour clones AT 386(486).“

— Linus Torvalds

„Je gère en ne prenant pas de décisions et en laissant les choses progresser naturellement. C'est comme cela que l'on obtient les meilleurs résultats.“

— Linus Torvalds

„Talk is cheap. Show me the code.“

— Linus Torvalds

„My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.“

— Linus Torvalds
As quoted in: Young, Robert; Goldman Rohm, Wendy (1999), Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business – and Took Microsoft by Surprise, p. 111 Jokingly introducing himself, at the 1998 Linux Expo in Durham, North Carolina

„Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.“

— Linus Torvalds

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„Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.“

— Linus Torvalds
Attributed to Torvalds at 1996 FSF conference, video showing this phrase in one of Torvalds papers (time code: 48.44) https://web.archive.org/web/20071016215132/http://www.argentilinux.com.ar/doku.php/linux_videos_documentales:the_code_linux

„Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.“

— Linus Torvalds

„The fact is, the people who have created open source and made it a success have been the developers doing work - and the companies that we could get involved by showing that we are not all insane crazy people like the FSF. The people who have destroyed projects have been lawyers that claimed to be out to "save" those projects.“

— Linus Torvalds

„Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE FCKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the fck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?“

— Linus Torvalds

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„Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, THEN, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.“

— Linus Torvalds

„Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well.“

— Linus Torvalds

„Why don't we write code that just works? Or absent a "just works" set of patches, why don't we revert to code that has years of testing? This kind of "I broke things, so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak" is not acceptable. [... ] Don't just make random changes. There really are only two acceptable models of development: "think and analyze" or "years and years of testing on thousands of machines". Those two really do work.“

— Linus Torvalds

„For example, the GPLv2 in no way limits your use of the software. If you're a mad scientist, you can use GPLv2'd software for your evil plans to take over the world ("Sharks with lasers on their heads!!"), and the GPLv2 just says that you have to give source code back. And that's OK by me. I like sharks with lasers. I just want the mad scientists of the world to pay me back in kind. I made source code available to them, they have to make their changes to it available to me. After that, they can fry me with their shark-mounted lasers all they want.“

— Linus Torvalds

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