Linus Torvalds Quotes

I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

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

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

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

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.

To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming

I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success — I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system... I just want to smash it.

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

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.

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

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.

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

Microsoft loves Linux.

We've had a relationship with Microsoft for a while. It's bigger than just Xbox - we use Azure for some of our cloud stuff. PC Windows is a very big platform for us as well.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.

We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)