Just change the games you play and come on over to Linux. Let's all sleep better at night knowing we are totally disengaged from this too big to fail company known as Microsoft. They are playing 'nice nice' with open source now, but you know what they are planning to do eventually. Just swallow the gaming pride and come on over.... Sleep good... Yes....

Old school programmers from the 1960's, 70's and 80's are engineers and should be called such. All programmers after those decades are just programmers.

Perl will rise back to the top like a Phoenix from the ashes. Larry Wall is a genius and deserves way more respect than what others have been giving him as of late.

I'm just saying for example, Bill Gates is (when it comes down to it) the voice of "Microsoft". What he says in public gives most people an image of what Microsoft is like (even if it is wrong) or they may harbor bad feelings or attitudes toward Microsoft because of what he said. It's just automatic perception. It's not right to do that, just human nature. (for most folks) So by that same token, technically, Linus is the voice of Linux. Some normal joe shmoe dude may read that and not have a clue what Linux is but because he read that Linus spouted off at the mouth like that, that Linux must be used by a bunch of smart mouths.. It's just perception.. that's all.. I hate it just as much as anyone else....

Since Linus is technically the leader of the Linux Community (if he wants to acknowledge it or not), he needs to understand that leaders can't go around loosing their cool like he has been doing the last few months. He is representing the entire Linux community (in essence) with anything that he says. Linus is a brilliant man, but needs to take it down a notch and be a little more responsible and use a little more tact. Again, one of the smartest guys on Earth, but needs to be a little more level headed sometimes. Just my take....