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" In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. "

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" 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. "

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

" Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. "

" Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge. "

" Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. "

" Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it. "

" Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day. "

" The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. "

" 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. "

" Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well. "

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

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

" What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out. "

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

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

" I don't see myself as a visionary at all. "

" I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up. "

" 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. "

" I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. "

" I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "