Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.

Github is an excellent hosting service; I have nothing against it at all.

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.