One of the reasons that I really don’t mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.
On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.
Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.
Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I’m not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.
And what’s the Internet without the rick-roll?
If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.
I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.
I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don’t have to.
I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.
There are “extremists” in the free software world, but that’s one major reason why I don’t call what I do “free software” any more. I don’t want to be associated with the people for whom it’s about exclusion and hatred.
Hmmm, completely a-religious – atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.
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.
Right now some people are just running around in circles and claiming that moving things to the kernel automatically makes it more stable. I’m telling you that the kernel is stable not because it’s a kernel, but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this.
I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.
This ‘users are idiots, and are confused by functionality’ mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.
There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they’d still be wrong.
When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.