In many cases the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat - and there are a number of other Linux companies going public - basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area.

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

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.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.