I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

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