I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people, too), I tend to try to not be too serious about it. And most of the time it means that I can take criticism constructively, and sometimes just change my opinion on the fly and laugh at myself over having turned on a dime.

And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.