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

The big thing about distributed source control is that it makes one of the main issues with SCM's go away - the politics around "who can make changes." BitKeeper showed that you can avoid that by just giving everybody their own source repository.

The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

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

Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.