Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

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

So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.