I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.
Linus TorvaldsOK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
Linus TorvaldsThere were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.
Linus Torvalds