A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

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.

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.