An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.

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.

While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got ubiquitous. So it helped kernel development, but there were still pain points.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.