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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. Another interview by RDW · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a good companion piece, from the second issue of the Linux Journal way back in 1994:

    http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2750

    Read the shocking truth about Patrick's Grateful Dead tape collection, and the possibility of a Slackware/Debian merger!