I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

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

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.

Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.