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

I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.

Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

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

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers and managers. They are the crazy voices in your head, and you need to set them right, not just blindly do what they ask for.