Those comments stand unless you've got any new ones from Finland praising Apple sofware. I doubt there are, since last I heard he was calling the new Solaris UNIX "a joke", right along the same lines.
http://news.com.com/Torvalds+A+Solaris+skeptic/2008-1082_3-5498799.html
Those comments are four years old, and refer to software that isn't in use any more. It's a strawman. Find something recent and at least relevent to today's enironment.
Solaris/x86 is a joke, last I heard. (It has) very little support for any kind of strange hardware. If you thought Linux had issues with driver availability for some things, let's see you try Solaris/x86. (Editors' note: Drivers enable an operating system to communicate with specific hardware such as a video card or network adapter.)I thought this was one of your issues with Linux. If another OS has this many problems, why are you recommending it? It would just cause headaches for the user.
Another point--now that it's open source, what's to prevent non-US workers from stealing it and copying it for their own needs? Again, you are recommending an OS that is able to be DL'ed into a foreign country and used "with no financial gain back to the US" as you like to repeat.
Personally, if it has as much trouble with hardware as your link indicates, I'll stay away from it until it matures more. I've already got a POSIX-compliant OS that runs great and recognizes all my hardware.
So what? Torvald's got a dog in this race too... and he trashes the competition's dogs. UNIX and OSX are certainly not "Crap" and Linux is not perfect.
Torvald is striving to incorporate all of Unix's strengths into Linux. Now Linux developers are striving to get the elegance of OSX's GUI into their boxes.
They say that Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.