Actually, I don't see this guy as really being mentally ill.

He's a mad scientist, dude wrote an OS. That's what happens. If any one of you pushed through on your startup past the point of hope (like a lot of the posts on here recommend by "successful" individuals who are very likely nearly as "delusional" but hide it better) you would be exactly the same.

He's just coming out with his "fuck this, I'm in the Matrix" ultra-superstitious moments which takes a lot of balls. He's got nothing to lose, so fuck it. I bet a LOT of old programmers on here see this guy and think "yeah, I've had some God moments."

If I had a billion dollars, I would give this guy a million bucks just for sticking to his guns for a decade. He's obviously not an idiot. He just hit that point in programming where you realize the universe is made of voxels made of energy and that we're stupid animals competing for dominance, everything we do is subconsciously motivated and the things we say are mostly lies we've convinced ourselves of.

Let's all hate celebrities and people more successful than we are! Let's tear down the pack leaders and earn tribal status so we have access to the women! Save the princess!

If you don't understand this, you either haven't reached the point of seeing the superficial as it is, haven't separated from the herd for long enough to ever think for yourself, haven't reached a high enough level of maturity, or you're made so uncomfortable by it you just repress it and agree with the status quo but on some level know it's right.

What exactly is the difference between this and a pac-man clone written in Excel? Do you realize this is how scary and insane writing a shell script looks to the average person?
I'm guessing the difference is the Christian bent. I'm not religious, but most of the world is. Do you know why?

The obsession with religion is creepy and foreign, but it's unfortunately the best thing we've got to align to.
You like classical geniuses? Bach, maybe? Dude hid secret messages in his songs and wrote them all as an offering to God, wrote crazy shit on the top of every page.
It's a good thing we all see Bach for what he is and publicly criticize him as being a mentally ill pariah freak, and not hold him up as some kind of musical genius hero.
Hundreds of examples like this.

Let's put YOU under the spotlight for a moment here:

"Open source is coming. Watch out for the revolution."

Open source? You mean those mentally ill homeless drugged up Berkeley hippy protesters with neckbeards camping outside Microsoft? Those guys are a cancer to this business.

Yeah, watch out for the revolution. Look, this obsessed nerd thinks SOURCE CODE is a revolution. Yeah, the world sure gives a huge fuck about software being open. We're gonna see everyone just pouring into the streets and rioting any day now because we've finally been set free from our oppressors.

(Tongue in cheek, devil's advocate, showing perspective.)

By the way, this guy wrote an open source OS. Why aren't you hacking on his project? Maybe it's great, have you looked at the technical side of it?

Watch me get attacked for defending the guy the hivemind has decided to hate.

Either way, here's what's gonna happen: Some cute little Christian bird that likes computers is gonna fall in love with this courageous man here, they're gonna get hitched and live happy as clams. That's probably everything you ever wanted, but you're too busy hacking away trying to achieve wealth and status because you're insecure, while this guy is shagging his wife to the beat of his insane randomly generated music. God (nature) wins, the end.