An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Open Source And Beyond - Part 2 (Tag1)
The second half of the interview with Linus Torvalds on the Tag1 Consulting site has been posted.

I think one of the reasons Linux succeeded was exactly the fact that I actually did NOT have a big plan, and did not have high expectations of where things would go, and so when people started sending me patches, or sending me requests for features, to me that was all great, and I had no preconceived notion of what Linux should be. End result: all those individuals (and later big companies) that wanted to participate in Linux kernel development had a fairly easy time to do so, because I was quite open to Linux doing things that I personally had had no real interest in originally.