Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

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

I think the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.

The cyberspace 'earnings' I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat - and there are a number of other Linux companies going public - basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area.

I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.