Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

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.

In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.