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.

Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.

I actually don't believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it's reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects most people to have to do it. It's not like knowing how to read and write and do basic math.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".