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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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"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, 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."
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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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"We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux."
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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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"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."
Linux
"And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux."
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"Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely."
Linux
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
Time
"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?"
Old
"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."
Want
"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!"
Beauty
"Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes."
Trying
"See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy."
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