If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

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.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.