I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt.… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else… — Ryan C. Gordon Copy Share Image
It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming.… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
It's been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android - the most successful mobile Linux distribution… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging ,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Success for open source is when the term 'open source' becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about… — Brian Behlendorf Copy Share Image
Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death… — Kenneth P. Thompson Copy Share Image
A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into… — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
I can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich, but I can't find a reasonable case where a… — Ryan C. Gordon Copy Share Image
Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
“There were in fact bugs," he recalls, "But the essential difference was in the obviousness of bugs, the repeatability of bugs, and… — Glyn Moody Copy Share Image
I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who… — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms... non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious… — Ryan C. Gordon Copy Share Image
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
“Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is an expert of understatement in his leadership of Linux development community. When eager programmers would… — Dan Woods Copy Share Image
