I'd like to point out that I don't think that there is anything fundamentally superior in the GPL as compared to the BSD license, for example. But the GPL is what I want to program with, because unlike the BSD license it guarantees that anybody who works on the project in the future will also contribute their changes back to the community.

The complaints I've had is that GitHub as a development platform - making commits, pull requests, keeping track of issues etc - doesn't work very well at all. It's not even close, not for something like the kernel. It's much too limited.

In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.

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

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.