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

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

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.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

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.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for 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.