I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.

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

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.

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.