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Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.

— Jamie Zawinski

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

— Jim Allchin

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

— Theo de Raadt

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

— Jamie Zawinski

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

— Wietse Venema

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

— Stephen Cambone

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.

— Nat Friedman

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.'

— Guy Kawasaki

I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system... I just want to smash it.

— Tim Daly

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

— Larry Wall

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

— Bill Gates