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Rooney, Paula (2005-02-01), Torvalds: Waiting To See Sun's Open Solaris, publisher: CRN, retrieved: 2006-08-28
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A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

— Linus Torvalds

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die." in the context of "Rooney, Paula (2005-02-01), Torvalds: Waiting To See Sun's Open Solaris, publisher: CRN, retrieved: 2006-08-28" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Linus Torvalds

About Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American computer programmer, best known as the creator of the Linux kernel.