If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

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.

In many cases the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.