Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

Only failure makes us experts.

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.

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.

I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways - securing software - and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built.

C++ is a pile of crap.