If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.

Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.

I can mostly laugh at myself and this whole mess called "Linux developers," which means that I get along with most people and most people get along with me.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.