SPARC is the number two platform for Linux, but it's a distant number two. Sun is doing whatever it can to get some [Linux business] on the SPARC platform, but I think it's pretty much an Intel story.

[Sun] likes Linux in general because every Linux socket taken up is not an NT socket. Plus, they want to sell hardware, and they do not want to sell Intel.

Linux is the most significant competitor to the Windows platform,

We find great ideas and cultivate them off whatever platform we can think of.

This is really complex stuff. They are going to have to find a prime contractor that will work with all the other entities to chip in.

No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.