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

I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.

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.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

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

When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.