Jamie Zawinski Quotes

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

All the best people in life seem to like 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.

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

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

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

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

Microsoft loves Linux.

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

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 started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.

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

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.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

Success for open source is when the term 'open source' becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and compare it to Windows NT, and they compare it on the feature set and don't have much of an excuse not to use it.

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

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

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.

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.

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

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.