Quotes of the week

If you look at Linux contributions they come from everywhere. The core of the network routing code was written by Russians (and Alexey who worked at a nuclear research instutite even turned up at OLS with a 'minder' who as per every stereotype was apparently capable of drinking vodka in half pints). We have code from government projects, from educational projects (some of which are in effect state funded), from businesses, from volunteers, from a wide variety of non profit causes. Today you can boot a box running Russian based network code with an NSA written ethernet driver.

Every time a patch goes through more than 3 purely coding style revisions, a unicorn dies.