When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

The big thing about distributed source control is that it makes one of the main issues with SCM's go away - the politics around "who can make changes." BitKeeper showed that you can avoid that by just giving everybody their own source repository.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.