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.

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

I have an ego the size of a small planet.

I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.