Broken Quote by Darl McBride

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

— Linus Torvalds

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

— 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 made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral…

— Linus Torvalds

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

— Steve Ballmer

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

— 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

I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell…

— Linus Torvalds

What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all…

— Linus Torvalds

We can build a better product than Linux,

— Jim Allchin

I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and…

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Nat Friedman