Linux Quotes

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.

I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump.

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.