Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said, 'No, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

C++ is a pile of crap.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.