Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.