Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works but only want to use it is not only a tribute to how good Linux is, but it also brings up issues that I would never have thought of otherwise.

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

I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

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.

While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got ubiquitous. So it helped kernel development, but there were still pain points.