It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.

I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.

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

And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?

Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.