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

I can mostly laugh at myself and this whole mess called "Linux developers," which means that I get along with most people and most people get along with me.

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people, too), I tend to try to not be too serious about it. And most of the time it means that I can take criticism constructively, and sometimes just change my opinion on the fly and laugh at myself over having turned on a dime.

I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.