Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.