No problem is too big it can't be run away from

The big thing about distributed source control is that it makes one of the main issues with SCM's go away - the politics around "who can make changes." BitKeeper showed that you can avoid that by just giving everybody their own source repository.

I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.