Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.