Linux Quotes

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 never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

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

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.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

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

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

I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump.

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.

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

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.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

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

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.

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.