In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.

Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.

I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous.

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

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.

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