You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

I have one very basic rule when it comes to "good ideas". A good idea is not an idea that solves a problem cleanly. A good idea is an idea that solves several things at the same time. The mark of good coding is not that the program does what you want, it's that it also does something that you didn't start out wanting.

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.