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.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.