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 see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

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.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.