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"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."
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"Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer."

"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?"

"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!"

"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."

"If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works."

"I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card."
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