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Jamie Zawinski

"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."

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"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."

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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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"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
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"Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer."
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"See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy."
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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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"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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"Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely."
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"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?"
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"My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others."
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"Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes."

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