Interview With Linus

Posted by Hemos on Sunday November 4, 2001 @09:46AM from the talking-with-the-man dept.

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.""

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Re:Linus doesn't case! by Webmonger · 2001-11-04 10:04 · Score: 2, Redundant

Actually, it really depends how you look at it.

His indifference to Microsoft and Windows is inspiring to me. If only all Linux supporters were so confident in Linux that they didn't bother to attack Windows. . .
Hrm by digsean · 2001-11-04 15:22 · Score: 2, Redundant

Well. Its kinda good that linus really doesn't have too much to say about this whole deal. I hope he really just ignores Windows and does what linux does best: be linux.

Just as a secondary comment: why don't people give up this whole M$ bashing thing? I really thing that people need to just let it go. Bashing M$ just makes our community look childish.

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