Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

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

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.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

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

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.