Italic with a two-story “a”.

Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. I trust their design decisions.

One time I told my friend who teaches macro economics that I found a math thing difficult. He answered “I also find math hard, especially when they mix numbers into it.” and I had one of those “we are not the same”-moments.

Ken actually uses Debian, at least he said so in an interview a couple of years ago.

I had to convince people to let me on board a plane because my name contain a swedish letter (å). Their computer system translated it into “aa”, which then didn’t match my passport.

People seem to think that those who choose permissive licences don’t know what they’re doing. Software can be a gift to the world with no strings attached. A company “taking” your code is never taking it away from you, you still have all the code you wrote. Some people want this. MIT is not an incomplete GPL, it has its own reasons.

For example, OpenBSD has as a project goal: “We want to make available source code that anyone can use for ANY PURPOSE, with no restrictions. We strive to make our software robust and secure, and encourage companies to use whichever pieces they want to.”