I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

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.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian.