Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, THEN, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.
A computer is like air conditioning – it becomes useless when you open Windows.
While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.
In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won’t end up like the Hurd people.
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I’ve won.
Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
Those that can, do. Those that can’t, complain.
Microsoft isn’t evil; it just makes really crappy operating systems.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
I think the term “intellectual property” should be avoided, not because it’s a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn’t be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.
In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.
People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.
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.