While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got ubiquitous. So it helped kernel development, but there were still pain points.

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.