Linus Torvalds Quotes

You won’t get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

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.”

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

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.

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

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.