Zitat des Tages über Linux:
The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
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.
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.
I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.
What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.
Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.
The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.
The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.
I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.
I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.
A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.
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.
And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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 have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is not in any way a Linux system, except for the kernel.
I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.
We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.
I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump.
I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
