OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.

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

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.

What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

The big thing about distributed source control is that it makes one of the main issues with SCM's go away - the politics around "who can make changes." BitKeeper showed that you can avoid that by just giving everybody their own source repository.