Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

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.

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

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

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.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.