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Jamie Zawinski

"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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"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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"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!"
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"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
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"My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others."
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"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."
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"And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux."
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"If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works."
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"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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