A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.

Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian.