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Patrick Volkerding Interviewed by The Age

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the insert-slackware-joke-here dept.

boa13 writes "The Age, a major newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, has published an interview with Patrick Volkerding, The Man behind Slackware. Covered are the early history of Slackware, its business model, its current state, Patrick's plans for the future and his opinion about the commercialisation of Linux. "

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  1. Erm... by Purple_Walrus · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    While most other commercial Linux distributions have problems balancing the books, Volkerding hasn't had to worry since he decided in 1994 that the only way to keep the project going was to find some way to fund it.

    No need to worry since all he needs to do is find some way to fund it? Doesn't that apply for almost ANY business model? I think that the person who wrote this article is a freakin' moron...

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