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.

There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.

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

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.