A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.