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The Linus "work of art" quote is slightly misleading. Here it is with more context:

Can I just once again state my love for it and hope it gets merged soon? Maybe the code isn’t perfect, but I’ve skimmed it, and compared to the horrors that are OpenVPN and IPSec, it’s a work of art.

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Apologies, didn't mean for that to be misleading. Still, he got it into the kernel in record-time for a new feature, which has got to be saying something.

Yes, Linus said, compared to a turd, it's a work of art. Very misleading quote.

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