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

The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

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'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'