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

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As such, it only brings value-added things to Linux, and it doesn't take anything away from the Linux scene.

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.