Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth. - Linus Torvalds

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Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth.

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About Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American computer programmer, best known as the creator of the Linux kernel.

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If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam. As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.

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