#operating system

It is the fate of operating systems to become free. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#fate #free #operating #operating systems #systems

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#android #because #between #common #component

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

— David Ogden Stiers

#go #operating #operating system #system #television

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it. ↗

— Jim Allchin

#distinction #neat #operating #operating system #runs

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#choice #competition #consumers #direction #fair