This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

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.

I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.