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Torvalds: Apple's free OS is no threat to Linux
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### The Linux creator says he will keep working on the OS until he gets bored or his doctor decides he cannot do it anymore ###
Apple's move to offer its latest desktop operating system, OS X Mavericks, for free isn't going to affect the Linux operating system at all, its creator Linus Torvalds said.
![](http://photos.pcpro.co.uk/images/front_picture_library_PC_Pro/dir_402/it_photo_201031_52.jpg)
Linux has been giving its OS away for 22 years, said Torvalds during a question-and-answer session at LinuxCon Europe in Edinburgh on Wednesday. But Apple's decision to offer its OS for free as of Tuesday is entirely different from Linux' philosophy, he said. In fact, one of the reasons Torvalds uses the term open source instead of free software because there is a difference between open and free, he said.
While Apple's Mavericks update might be free it is not open source and people still need expensive hardware to use the OS, he said. "The fact that Apple gives the OS away is completely irrelevant," Torvalds said. "I don't think that it impacts Linux at all."
Torvalds is not thinking of retiring at all, he told the audience when asked what needed to happen for him to retire. "It needs to get not interesting and that hasn't happened yet," he said. But he would probably stop if he gets the feeling that he can't code anymore or the doctor tells him to quit.
While Torvalds doesn't tend to do a lot of programming these days, he still likes what he does, he said. "People just know who I am," he said. And while developers according to Torvalds can have "the attention span of slightly moronic woodland creatures" he likes to be responsive to developers and maintainers of the kernel who reach out to him. Nevertheless, he said, part of his role is to be able to say, "No, this is not how we do things."
Even if Torvalds gets hit by a bus, Linux will have no issues going on, he said. There are thousands of people involved with Linux for more than 20 years of which some from the beginning are still around, he said. "We have an incredible deep set of developers."
"I'm the person who people know and they know how I work. That means that they may not always like what I do and how I present things but they can trust that I act in a certain way and that is important," he said. "But there are other people that are impolite and can take patches," he added, referring to his flare-ups.
Torvalds said he has no idea where Linux will end up in five years. "I never had a plan. I still don't have a plan. It is kind of evolution in biology: there is no end plan. It is just that what works survives," he said. Linux will keep on evolving and improving in the same way, he said.
"I don't know which direction we'll improve in, but I don't feel I need to worry about that," he said.
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Torvalds：苹果的免费OS对Linux根本不构成威胁
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###Linux之父说他将一直奋战在OS第一线，直到某天他感到厌烦，或是医生诊断他无法再继续为止。###
苹果最新发布的免费操作系统，OS X Mavericks，将不会对Linux操作系统造成任何影响。Linux的创造者Linux Torvalds如是说道。
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本周三，爱丁堡，欧洲LinuxCon大会，Torvalds在其中一次访谈中说，Linux作为操作系统已经走过了22个年头，而苹果在周二关于免费提供操作系统的决定和Linux的哲学相比，是完全不同的，事实上，Torvalds说自己使用开源产品而不是免费软件，其中一个原因就是，开源和免费有根本上的不同。
虽然苹果的Mavericks更新可能是免费的，但是它并不开源，人们如果想要使用该操作系统，仍然需要购买昂贵的硬件。他说：“事实上，苹果推出的免费OS完全是一个和免费毫不相干的噱头，我认为它完全不会影响到Linux。”
当被问道什么情况下选择退休的时候，Torvalds说他一直以来从未考虑过退休，“关于这个，大伙儿还是省省心吧，等到时候再说。”但他表示，如果将来某一天，他觉得自己写不动代码，或是医生告诉他应该停止的时候，他就会退休。
最近这些天Torvalds仍旧不打算做太多编程方面的工作，他还在享受各种各样的会议和访谈，他说，“人们只是认识我而已，（其实他们并不了解我）”。据Torvalds讲，尽管有时他会形容开发者们拥有像“雨林低等微生物般的注意力时间”，但当内核开发者和运维人员找到他的时候，他还是会有求必应。除此以外，他还说自己所承担的另一部分职责是能够适时地否决，“No，我们不能这么干！”
Torvalds说，即使自己受到很多人的打击和质疑，但Linux仍将继续一往无前。20多年来有数千人参与到Linux的开发中，有的人从最开始一直坚持到了现在，“我们的开发团队拥有难以置信的人员储备深度”。
他说，“我是个公众人物，人们都认识我，知道我如何工作。这意味着，他们可能并不总是喜欢我的所作所为、所说所想，但是人们可以相信，我有自己独特的一套行为方式，这很重要。”当被问及为何有时会发怒上火，他补充道，“然而，还有些人确实很不礼貌，可以给这些人‘打打补丁’。”
Torvalds说他并没有若干年内终止Linux的计划。“我从没有过这样的计划，将来也不会有。这就像生物学中的进化论：进化不会终止。Linux的生存也是如此。”他说，Linux将会一直以同样的方式持续进化和改进。
“我不知道Linux最终将去往何方，但我并因此不担心，就让一切顺其自然吧……”
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