Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.
"When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at
you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*.'"
"Microsoft operating systems are bad, and their morals are even worse..."
( Quoted in the San Jose Mercury News, 8 Sept. 1996 article about Linux )
"I could be bought, but Linux couldn't be."
( Quoted in the San Jose Mercury News, 8 Sept. 1996 article about Linux )
Q: Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I
should use Linux over BSD?
A: No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on
creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it
certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able
to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the
mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the
name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too
technical.
( Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux )
"The most important design issue...is that Linux is supposed to be
fun..."
( Linux Journal, March 1995 )
"While in Australia, Dennis Ritchie said that the one feature of
Unix he was most pround of was that it was portable. When it
comes to Linux, the one decision I am most proud of is not the
actual physical design of the system, but the decision to make
it free."
( Linux Journal, March 1995 )
"[Linux] does endless loops in six seconds."
( Linux Journal, March 1995 )
"...So, I obviously decided to make my own Unix. What do I need?
I need lots of ignorance, because if you know too much, you know
that it's obviously impossible. Then you need the arrogance -
`yes, I can do it, and I can do it better than anybody else.'
Those two you need just to get started... you need to be a bit
crazy and actually go on with it...."
( Linux Journal, March 1995 )