Non-technical questions sometimes don’t have an answer at all.
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.
Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they’re involved and taking it personally.
The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.
Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.
I’ve never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don’t like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.
No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I’m somewhere between geek and normal.
You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you’re making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it’s not a clever thing to do.
Don’t hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don’t worry about timing.
If you like using CVS, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else.
Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.
The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.
I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.
Helsinki isn’t all that bad. It’s a very nice city, and it’s cold really only in wintertime.
Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do.
The way to do good basic design isn’t actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.
When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers and managers. They are the crazy voices in your head, and you need to set them right, not just blindly do what they ask for.
I am very happy about Android obviously. I use Android, and it’s actually made cellphones very usable.
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.