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BBC Interviews Linus Torvalds

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

chrisseaton writes "The BBC has an interview with Linus Torvalds. It's a little thin, but good to see something like this in a decent mainstream news source."

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  1. see & hear the interview by Alain+Williams · · Score: 4, Informative

    Visit:

    http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickon li ne.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=3

    realplayer is needed to see this.

    1. Re:see & hear the interview by Truckle · · Score: 2, Informative

      Link: Here.

  2. Hate to Burst their bubble by Streiff · · Score: 3, Informative

    but Linux is not an Operating System. It's a kernel.

    Linux by itself doesn't do much.

  3. Much longer video interview by seldolivaw · · Score: 5, Informative

    This article is just excerpts from a much more substantial video interview on BBC world. Ironically, the video interview is only available in Windows media, and the page doesn't display properly in Mozilla :-)

  4. Re:Can you imagine RMS giving the interview? by Sunnan · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't have to imagine anything.
    Here is a BBC interview with RMS.

    I thought it was great, but then again, I like RMS.

  5. Re:Few thoughts. by jgalun · · Score: 2, Informative

    This makes no sense. As another poster points out a couple comments down, MSNBC has had plenty of nice coverage of Linux. As you point out, CNN featured a few articles on Linux ("never really saw the light of day" - I'm not sure what that means, since they were on the site). The New York Times recently had a positive editorial about Linux and has covered Linux many times in the business section. Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek have covered Linux, often in a positive manner about how it can save the enterprise money.

    Yes, sometimes the articles are not great, but tech journalism is often not up to our standards as Slashdot geeks. But that doesn't mean that the other news outlets don't "have the balls to cover linux in a positive manner."

  6. MSNBC actually hasn't been totally biased... by MsGeek · · Score: 3, Informative
    although I have my doubts that MSNBC will ever cover Linux developments in detail. Biased source.. you know the deal.

    MSNBC has done some surprisingly UNbiased articles about Linux. They have done some excellent articles on:

    to name but three. Gary Krakow did all three articles and nobody's muzzled him yet.

    I also remember that "The Site" show on MSNBC was very scrupulous in trying to make sure MacOS and Linux got as much time as possible. The fact that Leo Laporte and Soledad O'Brien were both Mac heads probably helped. If you recall, when "The Site" was pulled (it was getting far less ratings than the wall-to-wall Princess Di coverage) it spawned ZDTV, later to be known as TechTV.

    Alas, Soledad, where have you gone?

    About Gates as geek deity: the Flynn character in "Tron" was kind of modeled after him. It would be cool if in "Tron 2.0" Flynn goes from being a downtrodden geek to being an evil monopolist who revives the MCP to dominate the brave new world of Cyberspace. It would work.

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