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

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

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

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.