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

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.

Ron Ropeil

[slutdot]

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

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: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