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

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.

Don't hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don't worry about timing.

On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.

I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.