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" I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area. "

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" 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. "

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" That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle. "

" I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly. "

" I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. "

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" Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life. "

" 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 want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat. "

" I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. "

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

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

" Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime. "

" Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. "

" 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. "

" Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. "

" In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. "

" When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.' "

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

" By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them. "

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" 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've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers. "

" People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born. "

" 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. "

" I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can. "

" Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. "

" 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'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. "

" An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing. "

" I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues. "

" I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do. "