Richard Stallman Quotes

Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is not in any way a Linux system, except for the kernel.

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel.

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications.

Android phones in China are more 'Android open source' rather than Android in the way we are all used to here. So a lot of phones don't have Google Play, etc.

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

There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works but only want to use it is not only a tribute to how good Linux is, but it also brings up issues that I would never have thought of otherwise.

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.

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

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.

A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

As an open system, Android is not under the tight control of its creator, Google.

Microsoft loves Linux.