Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

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.

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.

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.