The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

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

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.