The big thing about distributed source control is that it makes one of the main issues with SCM's go away - the politics around "who can make changes." BitKeeper showed that you can avoid that by just giving everybody their own source repository.

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

And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

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

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

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this.