Quotes By Linus Torvalds

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

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

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

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.