#operating system

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#go #operating #operating system #system #television

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#crappy #evil #just #make #microsoft

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

— Larry Wall

#best #free #i #i think #likely

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#building #came #did #good #i

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#by the time #copyright #could #domain #effectively

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#genius #operating #operating system #simple #simplicity

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

— Linus Torvalds

#good #in my opinion #lot #making #making money

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them? ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#basic #because #changed #does #just

I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#company #i #i think #jump #june

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#microsoft #monopoly #operating #operating systems #over