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

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

I'd like to point out that I don't think that there is anything fundamentally superior in the GPL as compared to the BSD license, for example. But the GPL is what I want to program with, because unlike the BSD license it guarantees that anybody who works on the project in the future will also contribute their changes back to the community.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" - anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense "the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context").

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.

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.