If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

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

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.

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.