I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.

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.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.