Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.

Right now some people are just running around in circles and claiming that moving things to the kernel automatically makes it more stable. I'm telling you that the kernel is stable not because it's a kernel, but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this.

One of the reasons I like open source is that it allows people to work on the parts they are good at, and I don't mean just on a technical level; some people are into the whole selling and support, and that's just not me.

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

I have an ego the size of a small planet.

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