Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

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.

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

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.