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

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.