I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the tech market and is used virtually everywhere is obviously very personally satisfying. I think programming is fun, and the community around the kernel is great, but a project has to be relevant too.

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.