I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

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.

I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.

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.

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

On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.