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

What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

Github is an excellent hosting service; I have nothing against it at all.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

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.

This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.