Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can’t totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.
I don’t actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don’t throw their panties at me. I’m a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.
I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don’t find anything technically interesting there.
I’d much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it’s right and not talking to the other.
I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.
I like to think that I’ve been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
I don’t think I’m unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
I try to avoid long-range plans and visions – that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.
I’m generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
Making Linux GPL’d was definitely the best thing I ever did.
You won’t get sued for anticompetitive behavior.
A consumer doesn’t take anything away: he doesn’t actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
That’s what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It’s a positive feedback cycle.
Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.
I actually think that I’m a rather optimistic and happy person; it’s just that I’m not a very positive person, if you see the difference.
I don’t expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.