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by WastingMyTime89 1334 days ago
Torvalds was never a free software zealot in the way the FSS views the movement. He seems to believe open code leads to better code but I don’t think he is against the idea of closed source. He has worked on closed source software himself if I’m not mistaken.
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> Torvalds was never a free software zealot in the way the FSS views the movement

Who said anything about zealots?

please, stop putting words in someone else's mouth.

Linus was a big supporter of free software and the fact that the Linux kernel was free software is what compelled many developers to donate their work for free

They didn't do it to improve NT Kernel or Solaris kernel or... you know it.

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Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

-- Linus Torvalds