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Alan Cox: The Battle for the Desktop

Posted by michael on from the bunker-busters-needed dept.

richjones writes: "There's a new interview with Alan Cox up. I think he's right on the money with how Linux is going to spread into businesses, but he seems to think Internet applications are going to be big with consumers... I can't really see it... but he's Alan Cox, so he must know :)"

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  1. Bah.... by JoeLinux · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll bet he had his glasses on while interviewing. If he didn't, his responses probably would have been "GAH!!" "OH DEAR LORD SHUT OFF THE LIGHT!" "TOO BRIGHT! CAN'T CODE!"

    Much apologies to Userfriendly.

    JoeLinux

  2. The Last Question by the_radix · · Score: 1, Funny

    Besides being a kernel hacker, you're a bit of a cult figure or role model among open-source developers. Are you aware of that, does it affect you at all?

    Not particularly. I try and avoid those situations. I don't tend to lurk where people can find me.

    What?!? Does this mean he doesn't vote in /. polls?

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  3. Favourite Quote by SkulkCU · · Score: 4, Funny


    (regarding the first Linux Summit)
    The official part of it was actually very non-productive. The amount of work that got done over beer and at three in the morning cannot possibly be underestimated.

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  4. CSS by yerricde · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you have a fast local network, it's not difficult to play a DVD on one machine and watch the decoded picture on another.

    Yes it is. The DVD CCA would never allow digital output of a CSS decoder, and now that the WIPO Copyright Treaty is going/has gone into effect, the whole world can sing it with me: "It's fun to violate D-M-C-A, it's fun to violate D-M-C-A!"

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  5. Who...said...what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Who the hell is Alan Cox?

  6. Re:It's still about the apps... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I haven't got a clue what "the Bloomberg service" is, so that cannot be too "critical".

    Oh, look. PHB logic.

  7. Great line... by cca93014 · · Score: 2, Funny
    like SAP, where believe it or not, 4GB of address space, 4GB of memory, is just not enough. The SAP people have to actually try and squash their code into it, the software is so powerful.


    haha. Yeah, 'powerful' is one word for it mate...
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