Matt Mullenweg 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 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.

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

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Microsoft loves Linux.

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.

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

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.