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Ask Alan Cox, Activist

Posted by Roblimo on from the fighting-the-good-fight dept.

Alan Cox is one of the world's most famous Linux kernel hackers. Lately he's been speaking out quite a bit on issues like copyright law, software patents, and the future of Linux, and has generally become a bit more politically active, at least in the public eye, than he was in the past. Slashdot interviewed Alan back in 1999. Lots of things have changed since then, but our interview procedure hasn't; one question per post, we send 10 of the highest-moderated ones to Alan, and post his answers verbatim as soon as he gets them back to us.

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  1. Open Content by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 1, Troll

    Will you release this interview under an open content license?

  2. Verbatim by tekunokurato · · Score: 0, Troll

    Verbatim- Just like with Bruce Cambell?

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  3. Be honest now. by pi_rules · · Score: 0, Troll

    How much kernel code is actually in the stable series which was written under the influence of alcohol?

  4. Alan, How would *YOU* spend $40 Billion Dollars? by Lester67 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Enquiring minds want to know.

  5. FS and Peru by lkaos · · Score: 1, Troll

    Alan,

    With such a free software friendly government in Peru, and with you being opposed to American and Europian government censorship, any chance of moving off to Peru to start a geek-colony? If so, I'll bring the beer :)

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