The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.
The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.
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.
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 has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
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!
Microsoft loves Linux.