People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product,

Software patents are a huge potential threat to the ability of people to work together on open source. Making it easier for companies and communities that have patents to make those patents available in a common pool for people to use is one way to try to help developers deal with the threat.

Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.