If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.

Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.

A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of the most important things for Linux is having a big community that is actively testing new kernels; it's the only way to support the absolute insane amount of different hardware we deal with.

In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

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.