Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works but only want to use it is not only a tribute to how good Linux is, but it also brings up issues that I would never have thought of otherwise.

One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.