The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.
Linus TorvaldsWhen somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.
Linus TorvaldsI may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.
Linus TorvaldsI'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from big machines to PC's (the technology just evolved, fairly slowly at that), and from PC's to the internet. The next "revolution" is going to be the same thing - not about the technology itself being revolutionary, but a shift in how you look at it and how you use it.
Linus Torvalds