Linux Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.

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

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.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

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

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.