@Joseph, your point is out of order in the context of this discussion. I clearly asked an opinion from those kenyans who are at kernel level not those who know how to google. @Martin, @TheMburu, nice write-ups. However, I'm not totally convinced. Surely he knew that he was going down the road of cheap replicas/imitations of propreitary or existing systems, am sure he would have wanted it to be different. What drove him and what was his motivation when he sat infront of a screen running a compiler? What were his thoughts because he must have suffered from the same mental blocks that am certain lot of coders suffer from ( i.e me included ). *A coder and a mental block: You know what needs to be done, but you look at the screen with no commitment between the mind and keyboard*. @TheMburu, what drove those guys you know to write for embedded systems? Money? Some thots. :-) **--Have you done any code today?--**