Linux Quotes - Page 6

• I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.

  Linus Torvalds

  Years, Firsts, Half

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• Dinner with Steven Moffat in Bar Shu, spent mostly in enthusiastic Dr Who neepery. I love my life....As a side note, running Windows Vista on the Panasonic w7 is making me really nostalgic for 1986. Whoever thought I'd get to type things then stare at a blank screen for a bit and one-by-one watch the letters appear? Cory and Mike's 'Why Don't You Run Linux?' talks are staring to seem much more sensible.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Love Of My Life, Watches

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• I think [Wine] will be, at a minimum, incredibly useful to archeology, like DosBox has been for playing Wing Commander. Certainly it has been known to save the day with modern titles, too. But to have it as the agreed-upon way to how you play video games on Linux is completely unacceptable for several reasons, both technical and moral.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Wine, Thinking, Games

  Interview with Luboš Doležel, www.abclinuxu.cz. March 08, 2011.

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• Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.

  John Carmack

  Writing, Interesting, Databases

  Firing Squad Interview with Bob Colayco, February 9, 2000.

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• I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done.

  Timothee Besset

  Done, Ifs

  "Good News, id Tech 5 Is Likely Coming To Linux" by Michael Larabel, www.phoronix.com. September 14, 2009.

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• The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.

  Darl McBride

  Running, Broken, Napster

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• What I do for a living is somewhat like mercenary prostitution. I spend a lot of energy trying to find games to bring to alternate platforms, like Linux and MacOS, and in my free time, I work on various open source projects, and other freebies like that. So I guess I'm a hooker with a heart of gold, sorta.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Heart, Games, Trying

  Interview with Michael Larabel, www.phoronix.com. June 13, 2005.

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• The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Real, Apples, Adoption

  "Interview with Icculus". LinuxGames, May 13, 2007.

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• I can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich, but I can't find a reasonable case where a Linux port doesn't have at least a small, positive return on investment.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Games, Return, Example

  "Ryan C. Gordon and Michael Simms (2. Ryan C. Gordon)". Interview with Robin Heggelund Hansen, www.tek.no. March 10, 2009.

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• Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

  Linus Torvalds

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.ibiblio.org

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