I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.

So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.