Honesty Quote by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

— Larry Wall

Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.

— Tom Christiansen

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

— Nat Friedman

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

— Neal Stephenson

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which…

— Bill Gates

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

— Bill Joy

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

— Linus Torvalds

One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good…

— Linus Torvalds

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

— Nicholas Negroponte

I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from…

— Kenneth P. Thompson

Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI…

— Jamie Zawinski