If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

— Linus Torvalds, Why Intel and Netscape bought into Linux (1998)

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20011217145518/http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9810/01/whylinux.idg/

Quoted in David Needle's 1998 CNN.com article on why Intel and Netscape backed Linux.

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