3 posts and columns on Linus Torvalds

Please Just Kill Yourself Now.

So here’s a plea: if you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace “my kids” with “sales people on the road” if you think your main customers are businesses) need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place.

– Linus Torvalds’s rant on Google+ about his negative experience with openSUSE on his MacBook Air, after his daughter was was asked for a root password in order to print from the machine

Die, SCO, Die!

in News on August 25, 2009 at 9:19 am PT

“There’s No Free Lunch–or Free Linux.” That was the title of SCO CEO Darl McBride’s keynote address at the Computer Digital Expo in Las Vegas back in 2003, and it signaled the start of a long legal siege. Earlier that day, SCO announced plans to file suit against a large-scale user of Linux as part of its campaign against the open-source operating system.
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What Can I Say, Mr. Zuckerberg? Your Name Just Never Came Up.

in News on November 8, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, not Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, is the most influential IT personality of the past quarter-century. This according to a survey of IT professionals conducted by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Asked to list the most influential tech personalities of the last 25 years, 84% of respondents listed Gates, and [...]