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"What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out."
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"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."

"Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard."

"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."

"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."

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

"Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many."

"I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product."
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