I think the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.

Right now some people are just running around in circles and claiming that moving things to the kernel automatically makes it more stable. I'm telling you that the kernel is stable not because it's a kernel, but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this.

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

You can do a lot of things with git, and many of the rules of what you *should* do are not so much technical limitations but are about what works well when working together with other people. So git is a very powerful set of tools.