The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

C++ is a pile of crap.

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.