Talk With Michael Robertson

Lindows CEO Michael Robertson is vilified by many Linux advocates. At the same time, he is probably drawing more attention to desktop Linux than anyone else in the world. Is he evil? Or is he just a typical American businessman trying to make it big (for the second time; before Lindows, he founded -- and later sold -- MP3.com)? One thing is for sure: Unlike many CEOs, he'll give a plain-talk answer to a straight question. We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions submitted here by Slashdot readers to Robertson tomorrow, and run his answers, unedited, as soon as he gets them back to us.

Comments

*sits back with a bowl of popcorn*

[CableModemSniper]

This outta be fun.

Remains to be seen

[stratjakt]

Unlike many CEOs, he'll give a plain-talk answer to a straight question.

Who wants to take bets that he'll give self-affirming, buzzword-laden, market-speak answers?

Here's a question for ya

[Jonny Ringo]

How much thought and time did you put into the name "Lindows"? Seriously. Power to you and all that you're doing, but the lack of creativity in the name is blinding.

huh..

[Anonymous Coward]

Is he evil? Or is he just a typical American businessman trying to make it big (for the second time; before Lindows, he founded -- and later sold -- MP3.com)?

I thought the typical American businessman trying to make it big was evil...?

Ron Ropeil

[slutdot]

Do you consider yourself the Ron Popeil of the computing world?

This is great! I'm a HUGE fan!

[fobbman]

How bitter were you that Jerry Seinfeld decided to not continue the show? Also, if I can ask a second question...Have you thought about bringing the Kramer character to Broadway?

I took down pictures of my kids when I got my litho of "The Kramer", but it was worth it.

Re:What would change it all?

[ScoLgo]

While I do enjoy using Linux, I am not in favor of bombing Redmond. You see, I live right next door in Kirkland and the fallout might be, ummm... 'inconvenient'.

Thanks for your consideration! :-)

Re:Lindows

[greenalbatros]

I'm still getting months of uptime


bloody hell. months? The microsoft techs are really impressed with 3 months uptime on windows 2003 server, and you're getting months on winXP? are you sure you're not just using the WinXP theme on kde3?

Re:I like Michael Robertson

[Anonymous Coward]

So, Mr. Robertson, you do read Slashdot.

Re:Putting Linux in the news

[flossie]

No, no, no, no, no!
You're supposed to keep the debian cd around for when you want to uninstall redhat