I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
I am a very bottom-up thinker.
SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.
It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.