Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that’s technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.

A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they’re regular PCs and so they’re not always the most reliable.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

If you’re a virus writer, there’s no glory in attacking Linux on the desktop.

For a while the press and the market was preoccupied with this question about whether Linux was going to kill Windows and whether Linux fundamentally introduced a value proposition was going to pull users away...

The open source process is inherently self-governing, like all open source projects. At the same time Linux is now becoming important enough that it would be helpful to provide some guidance on where it can...

Linux will be integral on all IBM platforms, even the S/390,

It’s a conservative customer set that has a large installed base of [Cisco] routers. For many, they’ll say it’s too risky. Linux and open source have had a lot of success in enterprise servers …...

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique – shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.