When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.

I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

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

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.