Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got ubiquitous. So it helped kernel development, but there were still pain points.

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.