“The Macintosh is counter-reformist and has been influenced by the ratio studiorum of the Jesuits. It is cheerful, friendly, conciliatory; it tells the faithful how they must proceed step by step to reach — if not the kingdom of Heaven — the moment in which their document is printed.

DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that not all can achieve salvation.

Naturally, the Catholicism and Protestantism of the two systems have nothing to do with the cultural and religious positions of their users.

“Content management is not a technology problem. If you’re having trouble managing the content on your Web site, it’s because you have an editorial process problem. Your public-facing Web site is a publication. Treat it like one.

“Fairness” is not about laissez-faire (BSD) or about total-control (GPLv3).

“When it comes to people with a religious agenda, I don’t expect them to be polite or take my feelings into account.

“Workers who have frequent intense or emotionally charged interactions with others are more susceptible to burnout.

“Software work is either trivial or boring, and most often trivial and boring. Actually doing it, in most cases, would take seconds, but these seconds are so traumatically dull that they require long bouts of recuperation in between. The only way to save your soul in software is not to do anything.

“Sun isn’t even open enough to give the OpenSolaris community enough documentation to support their own new machines.

“There is nothing so tiring as pretending to work.

“I work as a software engineer, which means that I get paid a rather large amount of money to do very little.

“At least buyers of used cars and tract housing can resell them to the next ignorant buyer. Companies are generally stuck with their custom software.