No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.

What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

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

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.

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.