Brian Behlendorf Quotes

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

While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

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

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.

My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

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

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

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

The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.