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Interview with Larry Wall

Posted by michael on from the words-from-the-master dept.

Alfred Bacon writes "There will be an interview with Larry Wall on The Paula Gordon Show available on Saturday at 3:00 pm EST. It is an hour long in RealAudo format broken up into 10 minute segments. Mr. Wall will be discussing Perl, Free Software and the Open Source movement. It should be worth listening to."

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  1. Mass Media perverts the message, IMHO. by Kiss+the+Blade · · Score: 4
    I am as enthusiastic about Open Source Software as the next guy on this site, but the increasingly publicity-orientated motives of the community worries me intensely.

    What is to stop the community losing sight of it's goals when it becomes obsessed with user statistics & popularity contests? The community should be about word-of-mouth propogation, not mass media hype. The message that open source software from the FSF sends out is only achieved through direct use, not by glitzy advertising campaigns & talking heads.

    The community approach has worked very well so far, why shouldn't work in the future?

    KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.

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