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Ask Bruce Perens About Linux and Open Source
A lot is going on these days, ranging from the endlessly amusing SCO soap opera to plenty of mostly positive news about Linux and Open Source adoption by both corporate and government users, not to mention an increasing number of commercial applications being ported to Linux. And, of course, LinuxWorld is right around the corner. Bruce Perens is certainly as appropriate a person as any to help us get a handle on the current (and possibly future) state of Linux and Open Source. We'll send him 10 of the highest moderated questions, and post his answers as soon as he gets them back to us. As usual, one question per post, please, and don't bother asking questions that can easily be answered with a couple of minutes' worth of online research.
Why do you prefer 2000 to XP. I'm still using it myself, and agree with all your statments, but have heard that XP supports more software and hardware than 2000.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
How much longer do you plan to milk your career as the Jesse Jackson of Open Source? Is there any controversy in the Open Source world you don't feel the need to interject yourself into the middle of?