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I've read all comments about the interview, including the moderated down ones. I felt it was time for me to say something, because I understood a lot of people did not fully understand me, or the english translation of the interview. I will not defend Andy, because his defense is up to him and I may end up hurting him more than helping.

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone that said a kind word for me. It really meant something.
Now, I'll answer all the comments in a professional, constructive and non-insulting way.

@j, "Was this a joke?"
No. I know about hungarian notation. I tryed avoiding using some terms because I didn't really know what would Andy do with that interview neither who would read it. And I do know that the windows API was written in C. I didn't said anything else. But I did said that it had a (as refered) "strong emphasys in OOP". And you have to agree with that, because is part of the Windows nature. It has been done in a way to easily make OOP usable, or was just destiny that made OOP come to windows.

@anonymous, "Re: if i had a nickle..."
I don't really know what you mean with recognition. I have, in my life, help a lot of people and helped in a lot of important and well known projects and distros never expecting anything in return, and in a way, that is what is behind the creation of the Chefax R&D team and why I lead our local ACM branch. Because I do it for all the others. I don't know if I deserve recognition, but if someone decided to post the interview here, and if the OSNews webmasters decided to publish the interview, then it is because they think I may deserve, or because they liked Andy's interview. So, if I really do deserve recognition, why shouldn't I be allowed to start to be know because of OSNews? It is as legitimate as any other way.

@m
Thank you for the positive and constructive comment. I did not express myself very well and the translation didn't help. I really didn't mean Windows Server not having GUI to have ONLY a command line. There are ways to do it both without a GUI and without a command line. Think of, for example, something like a text-based user interface, kinda like ncurses or TurboVision (or the microsoft widgets used in QBASIC, VBDOS and the like). Could be Windows without the real graphical engine. There are more than the two extremes. About KDE, I agree that it is heavy, and I did not said anything contrary.

@John Blink, "Started programming at age 5"
I have kept my OS a bit of a secret for a few reasons:
1) I really do not have time to write a webpage about it. I have to do my studies, to work, to represent Chefax R&D, to represent ACM in our local branch and only the spare time to develop. If I lose my time creating webpages, I'll never be developing the OS
2) Because of attacks I have suffered, especially from important and well positioned people I know that tryed to steal one my projects and ideas. So I got afraid, and started hiding my ideas. I do want my OS to get public, sometime. But util I have something really inovative to show, I rather not show it at all. That is also why I avoided talking and being descriptive about the projects during the interview.
3) I also lack equipment, because getting sponsorships isn't easy. I always get people saying I have great ideas, but when it comes to sponsorship, everybody steps back. Unfortunately, this is the way it works in Portugal. And my university can't help me much. As neither me, nor my colleagues, have much money, we have to work with what we have, which isn't much.

Also, I could have mentioned BeOS, QNX, etc. I choose not to because I had to answer the questions and that's it. Also, I haven't had that much of a big experience with them as I had with Windows, Linux or FreeBSD, as such, I would not feel comfortable talking about something I do not know enough to compare. I did used a lot of them but still not enough for me.

Eugenia, me and everybody around here loves you. Don't let trolls get to your nerves.

To all of you, with no exception, take care