“If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.”

— Linus Torvalds

Why Intel and Netscape bought into Linux, 1998-10-01, CNN.com, Needle, David, 2016-03-08 http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9810/01/whylinux.idg/,
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