Torvalds decided to use the GNU General Public License, not because he fully embraced the free-sharing ideology of Stallman {or for that matter his own parents} but because he thought that letting hackers around the world get their hands on the source code would lead to an open collaborative effort that would make it a truly awesome piece of software. "My reasons for putting Linux out there were pretty selfish," he said. "I didn't want the headache of trying to deal with parts of the operating system that I saw as the crap work. I wanted help."136
( Walter Isaacson )
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