Theo De Raadt Quotes

#1. What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

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#2. Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

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#3. I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

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#4. Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

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#5. I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

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#6. C++ is a pile of crap.

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#7. In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

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#8. Only failure makes us experts.

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#9. The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

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#10. I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

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