Linux Quotes
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.
Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them
Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.
What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.
I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.
I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".
I can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich, but I can't find a reasonable case where a Linux port doesn't have at least a small, positive return on investment.
Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.
On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.
I'd rather use Windows and Internet Explorer in Hell than I'd use Linux and Mozilla Firefox in Heaven!
The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know.
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.
I can mostly laugh at myself and this whole mess called "Linux developers," which means that I get along with most people and most people get along with me.
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.
I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)
We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.
The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.
We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.
Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.
Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.
Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.
I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.
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.
OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.
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.
You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect.
A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.
