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

The complaints I've had is that GitHub as a development platform - making commits, pull requests, keeping track of issues etc - doesn't work very well at all. It's not even close, not for something like the kernel. It's much too limited.

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

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.