Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.