Linux Quotes - page 4

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. (Jamie Zawinski)
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. View quote
Tim O'Reilly
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. View quote
James Surowiecki
We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate. View quote
Miguel de Icaza
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform. View quote
Miguel de Icaza
I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump. View quote
Miguel de Icaza
We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them. View quote
Miguel de Icaza
Microsoft must be testing the outer limits of what a customer will put up with before bolting to Linux, certainly a valuable scientific study from my point of view. View quote
Pamela Jones
I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux. View quote
Donald Knuth
Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
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. (Linus Torvalds)
In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer. View quote
Linus Torvalds
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. View quote
Linus Torvalds
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. View quote
Linus Torvalds
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. View quote
Linus Torvalds
There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems. View quote
Linus Torvalds
I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers. View quote
Linus Torvalds
I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.' View quote
Linus Torvalds
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. View quote
Linus Torvalds
One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat -- and there are a number of other Linux companies going public -- basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area. (Linus Torvalds)
The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. You think v2 or later is the default. It's not. The default is to not allow conversion. Conversion isn't going to happen. View quote
Linus Torvalds
The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well. View quote
Gabe Newell
It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. View quote
Bill Gates
"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not." -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007. View quote
Bill Gates