The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
Linus TorvaldsSo I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous.
Linus TorvaldsI spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.
Linus TorvaldsThere's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who started using git very early on in order to work on the kernel really had to learn a very rough set of scripts to make everything work. All the effort had been on making the core technology work and very little on making it easy or obvious.
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