Interview With Linus

Hairy1 writes " Cisco has an interview with Linus which discusses among other things his thoughts - or rather lack of thoughts - about Windows. When asked about Microsoft he said - "Well, I don't know. I'm actually not a big Microsoft basher... They're very good at marketing. They're very good at trying to see What do we have to do to sell this? The bad part about it is that it does have a huge market share. And that means that it can be lazy, sort of. They don't have much competition on the desktop, which means that they have very little incentive to really fix some of the problems it does have.""

Comments

Linus doesn't case!

[Andreas(R)]

Great!
Yet another interview with the Geek that
doesn't care to give his opinion on important issues.

People look up to you Torvalds! You should take a stand - NOW!

Re:Linus doesn't care!

[Andreas(R)]

Yo mama!

Great Interview, Charlie.

[A Big Gnu Thrush]

You can always tell a Charlie Rose interview. He does all of the talking. Another great job, Charlie. Next time, ask some questions.

Re:Its the squeeky wheel that gets the most attent

[Nailer]

Do you really believe that the major players in the Linux / free software community don't have complete overthrow of the proprietary software "regime" in the back of their minds when they say such things?

To some extent - the technical ones would like for Linux to replace Windows in every situation, but they don't hate Windows or Windows users on some personal level or see that Linux can replace Windows in every way (hating Microsoft, OTOH ,seems fair enough given their busines practices). Ted Tso does brilliant work on making the Linux kernel better but has stated before that his wife will continue to use Quicken for her accounting because its, well, better than the alternatives. Linux, from this interview, doesn't hate MS, the GNOME and KDE people can recognize good ideas from other OSs an integrate them into their respective desktops (and hopefully reject the bad ones).

A follow up poster put it simply: the difference between the silent technical types working away making Linux am even more viable alternative and the ranting `Windows is inferior in every way and must die now' folk is maturity. I'm inclined to agree.

Re:Microsoft are lazy?

[einhverfr]

I imagine that those that clone UNIX features are even lazier? Or do you just dislike Microsoft?

I think that Linus is talking about the motivation to IMPROVE the product through bugfixes and meaningful features (which they admittedly DO add every third version or so, see Active Directory).