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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.
Jamie Zawinski
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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.
Jamie Zawinski
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I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.
Jamie Zawinski
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My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
Jamie Zawinski
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See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
Jamie Zawinski
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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.
Jamie Zawinski
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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!
Jamie Zawinski
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And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.
Jamie Zawinski
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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.
Jamie Zawinski
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Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
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Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
Jamie Zawinski
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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.
Jamie Zawinski
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