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

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of the most important things for Linux is having a big community that is actively testing new kernels; it's the only way to support the absolute insane amount of different hardware we deal with.

Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.