The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

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.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.