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

There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.

Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

I'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from big machines to PC's (the technology just evolved, fairly slowly at that), and from PC's to the internet. The next "revolution" is going to be the same thing - not about the technology itself being revolutionary, but a shift in how you look at it and how you use it.

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