In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
I’m generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.
I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
I’ve actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that’s because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.
My name is Linus, and I am your God.
I’m a technical manager, but I don’t have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it.
I’ve never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don’t like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
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 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.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
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