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Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
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Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
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Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.
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I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.
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I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.
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Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
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I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.
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I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.
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I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
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A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
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I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
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Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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