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

I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.