On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this.

When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

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.

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