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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. Anyone else see the humor by Gerry+Gleason · · Score: 5, Funny

    in his teaming up with Bob to work on Slackware?

    1. Re:Anyone else see the humor by Charm · · Score: 2, Funny
      Because of this?

      subgenius

      Or this?

      Microsoft

      --
      -- RTFM:Slackware::Beer:Saturday
  2. GNU Prairie Home Companion by cloudscout · · Score: 3, Funny

    What were you doing at the time you started Slackware?

    I was finishing up my bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Minnesota State University, Moorhead.

    It's MinnesotaLinux, dontchaknow!