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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. Sick Sad Spelling by j1mmy · · Score: 0, Troll

    From the comment: "GNU/Linux will not ever be ruined by any company who releases a distrobution. Anyone can make a linux distrobution, and because of this, if you ever see that all the distrobutions of linux are heading down the road to Redmond, you can learn (now thats a novel idea) how to make your own (if it's important enough to you)."

    I hear many jackasses spouting off words that are plainly misspelled. And they also start sentences with "and," rather than omitting it.

    I just want to clear this up for any jackasses reading. Distribution will never be ruined by any retard who posts a comment. Anyone can make spelling errors, and because of this, if you ever see that all the comments misspelling distribution are heading down the road to poor syntax, you can learn (no, seriously, it really is a novel idea) how to speak the fucking English language (if it's important enough to you). The atrocities mentioned above are not good practice for posters, but do not hurt the English language very much because educated people will not bother reading slashdot in the first place.