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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.

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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.

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I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

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I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

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I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

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

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In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

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In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: Finnish

Type: Businessman

Born: December 28th, 1969

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