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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.

There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.