I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It’s a great hacker’s tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.
C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.
I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that’s the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don’t have to run your OS, and you don’t have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don’t push it.
See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn’t necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.
And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.
Don’t do drugs, kids. Stay in school.
You can always affect things – so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won’t be the same, but it might be something else you also like.
You can’t take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of “open source,” and have everything magically work out.
Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.
Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?
Your needs are big because the Internet is big.
There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.
Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.