Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

No problem is too big it can't be run away from

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

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.

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.