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.

Github is an excellent hosting service; I have nothing against it at all.

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.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.