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.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As such, it only brings value-added things to Linux, and it doesn't take anything away from the Linux scene.