I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

You can do a lot of things with git, and many of the rules of what you *should* do are not so much technical limitations but are about what works well when working together with other people. So git is a very powerful set of tools.

In many cases the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less