“Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong?”
Linus to the hardware manufacturers that refuse to release the specifications of their hardware so they could operate with the Linux kernel.
Linus Torvalds talks future of Linux, 2007-08-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2007-08-22, 2007-08-25, http://web.archive.org/web/1/apcmag.com/7012/linus_torvalds_talks_about http://apcmag.com/7012/linus_torvalds_talks_about,
2000s, 2007
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Linus Torvalds 150
Finnish-American software engineer and hacker 1969Related quotes


Third Session of Parliament (June 30, 2007)

Source: The Man in the Iron Mask

Recorded by Charles Larpenteur at Fort Union in 1867. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 73.

A poem Ellen reads at the end of the first season of "Ellen". Longer version appears in her book, "My Point... And I Do Have One".

Letter to Gerald "Ching" Tyrrell, (11 November 1956), p. 28
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
Context: Hopes rise and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street.