Daniel Lyons Quotes

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.

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

GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.

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

While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.

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

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

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.

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

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.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

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.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

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

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

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software.

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

Android was intended to be very customizable. And we welcome innovations.

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.

I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away.

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.