I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".

I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

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.