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.