I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.