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.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

I am very happy about Android obviously. I use Android, and it's actually made cellphones very usable.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.