Whoever turned "copy right" into one word had to be a lawyer. We don't say "freespeechright" or "gunright" or "assemblyright" or "religionright." - John Bloom
"Universities are very cost-conscious, and the relatively low expense of Intel systems combined with organic availability of Linux is quickly becoming the norm, especially at reputable engineering schools. The free availability of the source code leads universities to standardize on Linux for computer science courses." - Billy Marshall, Red Hat
"Linux and open source are reversing Microsoft's monopoly path, starting with servers. The desktop will follow — even if Microsoft adopts the highly unlikely stratagem of offering its applications on Linux — as long as the package remains cheaper and more customizable than comparable Windows offerings." - Paul Andrews, Seattle Times
"Comparing Unix and Linux like-for-like, we found that we get two-to-five times the amount of throughput [messages per second] on one of the Intel boxes than a Sun Sparc box, at half the cost." - Casey Merkey, Global Linux Program Manager. Reuters' Market Data System