Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

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

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

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

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.

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.