I don't respect people unless I think they deserve the respect. There are people who think that respect is something that should be given, and I happ… - Linus Torvalds

Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?

the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that <nowiki>[diversity]</nowiki> stuff is just details and not really important.

(In answer to the question: In the extreme case, if it was just you doing all the code, and the rest of the world quietly used it, would it make sense to give it away free? Unless you're particularly grateful for other free things you've got off the Net, would the answer be No?":)