“I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.”

— Linus Torvalds

Microsoft Patches Linux; Linus Responds, 2009-06-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2009-06-26 http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html,
2000s, 2009

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