Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
My name is Linus, and I am your God.
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'
No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing,...
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.
The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.
To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.
The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.
I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the i...
I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.
