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.

One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat - and there are a number of other Linux companies going public - basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area.

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.