Theo de Raadt Quotes

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

We can build a better product than Linux.

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

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

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.

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

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.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

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.

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. I'd say the problem is in the nature of the job ChromeOS is designed to do.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

People appreciate a good product, a stable system. They want to communicate easily and use a product that just works.

Microsoft loves Linux.

No one will use the new Internet if it's slow, costs money and doesn't scale.

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

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.

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.

I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board.

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