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Linus Torvalds takes on evil developers, hardware errors and 'hilarious' AI hype


While all is 'calm and steady and boring' with the next kernel, Linux creator Torvalds tells an Open Source Summit crowd exactly how he feels about almost everything else.

One problem that some open-source projects have encountered recently is villainous developers who resemble normal, helpful ones but are in fact malicious. That open-source projects have found these kinds of attacks implies a fairly strong amount of stability so that these things do get caught. Then, Torvalds continued, "I made the same mistake 20 years ago when I said, 'Hey, I really don't think source control management is very interesting, but all these people before me -- they clearly got it completely wrong.

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