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

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.

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

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