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GNU-Friends Interviews

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the read-all-about-it dept.

Jonas Öberg writes "GNU-Friends is doing a series of interviews with long-time free software hackers that I think people would be interested in. Check out interviews with Arnold Robbins, Karl Berry, Andrew L. Moore, Guido van Rossum, David MacKenzie and Chet Ramey. More to come, but that should keep people occupied for a few minutes." The GNU-Friends should have a show right after Superfriends.

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  1. GNU/Friends by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I can't even have friends anymore, I have to have GNU/Friends? Damn you RMS!

    1. Re:GNU/Friends by grammar+fascist · · Score: 4, Funny

      So I can't even have friends anymore, I have to have GNU/Friends? Damn you RMS!

      That's right, and GNU/Joey, GNU/Chandler, GNU/Rachel...

      Admit it. Without the GNU tools, those people would be nothing at all.

      --
      I got my Linux laptop at System76.
  2. Just so all you lonely geeks know.... by nob · · Score: 3, Funny

    I read the interviews, and they don't tell you how to make GNU friends. We're stuck with our old D&D playing, zit faced, smelly friends until we can afford that 'vette.

    --
    daed si luap
    1. Re:Just so all you lonely geeks know.... by godlee · · Score: 3, Funny

      "they don't tell you how to make GNU friends"

      ./configure
      make
      make install

  3. Re:hmm... by JoeBuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately, the number of free sofware hackers who are women is very, very small, on the order of 1%, and almost none of these women has any leadership role. However, there is one woman who would make an excellent interview subject, and who does have a leadership role (at the Gnome Foundation): Telsa Gwynne.

    She herself would probably deny being a "free software hacker", though her testing and documentation work is critical to making the Gnome desktop a high-quality product.