People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

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.

Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

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

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

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.