Linus Torvalds Quotes

Microsoft loves Linux.

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 think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

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

There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.

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.

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.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

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

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

In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.

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.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space.

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

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

The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we've known them.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

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

Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.