Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.

When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

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.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.