Nat Friedman Linux Quotations

Now Linux has a world-class totally modern graphics system that will last us for the next decade.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

We expect that developers from a variety of projects will come to Better Desktop.org and review these results to see firsthand how they can improve the design of different applications, desktops and distributions. Ultimately, improved usability will help Linux succeed on the desktop.

As a programmer, it's sometimes difficult to know how ordinary people with no technical experience are reacting to your software. Linux people tend to know other Linux people. In these usability tests, we selected test subjects who were experienced with Windows, but who had never heard of Linux, and asked them to perform basic tasks using the Linux desktop.

I'm personally working on converting about 250,000 different Windows machines to Linux desktops, primarily in European government.

There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.

Right now Linux on the desktop is siphoning workstation users from Solaris and HP-UX.