“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

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