Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

I am very happy about Android obviously. I use Android, and it's actually made cellphones very usable.

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.

I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.

I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.

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.