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.

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

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.

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.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.