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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.""
for Heather Donahue!
I just realized how true this is - My girlfriends mother was visiting this weekend, she has no computer, and indeed has never actually used a computer. She was wondering if Mandrake was Windows XP since she HAD heard of that..
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Do you really think CISCO.com is going to be /.'ed enough to need a mirror?
It's Cisco, the load balanceing king. Nobody had better see any slashdot effect on this story or we're all doomed.
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I did a word count after separating their two threads of dialog into different files and removing the leading names from their lines.
Final counts:
Torvalds - 1669
Rose - 456
Never let facts get in the way of looking stupid though...
LEXX
"Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world." - Alan Greenspan, 1999
Who does he think he is?
Someone with a better sense of humor than you?
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Torvalds is compared to Edison and Gates to Rockefeller. I'm not sure that either is very much like Torvalds. Edison was quite into marketing his ideas and wasn't beneath slandering his competitors (such as Tesla).
I'm sure that if Linux slandered Telsa, then Alan would have something to say about it <grin>.
HH
1. Are you sick of giving interviews? ...or do both at the same time?
...about Bill Gates?
...about commercializing Linux?
:)
2. Are you sick of being asked the same questions?
3. Would you rather code, or drink a beer?
4.
5. Do you code better while half-drunk?
6. Do you code better when fully drunk?
7. Would you drive a stake through my heart if
I asked you about microsoft?
8.
9.
10. Do you regret linux's popularity in regards to
the fact that you've been forced into the
position of "geek god"
11. Does RMS get on your nerves as much as he does mine?
12. If you're ever in tennessee, would you consider hanging out with me?
13. What are the odds of the windows API's ever getting kernal support for running windows apps natively?
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Linus - if you're out there, answer these questions: Inquiring minds want to know!
You are a moron, but I don't hate you.
GNU/Linus, because Stallman says so.
...why don't people give up this whole M$ bashing thing?
Blasphemer! Satan dwells amongst us!
He's a witch! BURN HIM!!! BURN HIM!!!
;)
The man has no opinion about anything. What a wimp!
How does he decide what's for dinner???
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK