If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

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