“I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right […].”

—  Linus Torvalds

Re: clarification on git, central repositories and commit access lists, 20 Aug 2007, Linux Weekly News, kde-core-devel@kde.org, 2007-12-28 http://lwn.net/Articles/246381/, <br class="br">2000s, 2007

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