You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.

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

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who started using git very early on in order to work on the kernel really had to learn a very rough set of scripts to make everything work. All the effort had been on making the core technology work and very little on making it easy or obvious.