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

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

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.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got ubiquitous. So it helped kernel development, but there were still pain points.

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