A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.

Software is like sex. It's only good when it's for free.