No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.
An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.
I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.
People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.
I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.