I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".

In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.

There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do