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Shankland, Stephen (2004-12-21), Newsmaker: Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic, publisher: CNet, retrieved: 2006-08-28
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

— Linus Torvalds

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease." in the context of "Shankland, Stephen (2004-12-21), Newsmaker: Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic, publisher: CNet, 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.