One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.