With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

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

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.