Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.

Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.

I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.