Interview with Havoc Pennington of Red Hat

JigSaw writes "OSNews published an interview with Havoc Pennington, the head manager of Red Hat's Desktop department, also known for his freedesktop.org initiative and his very active/leading role in Gnome. Havoc discusses the internal changes on Red Hat, the future of the desktop version of Red Hat Linux, the XFree86 fork Xoutert, GTK+ and Gnome while he characteristically says regarding Linux eating UNIX's marketshare: '...nails are firmly in the UNIX coffin, and it's just a matter of time.'"

Comments

hey

[Mohammed Al-Sahaf]

Its Xouvert, not Xoutert.

Re:hey

[oever]

From the xouvert website:

What kind of a name is Xouvert?

Xouvert is named after the ancient Babylonian goddess of open windows, wooden digging implements, and moonlight. A notorious ritual among the higher levels of Freemasonry has kept her memory alive until now. Xouvert, awake!

Which is of course, complete bollocks. Xouvert is french for Xopen.

http://www.freeesktop.org/?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not to put to fine a point on it but your hyperlink is incorrect

http://www.freeesktop.org/

Re:Not that I have a bad attitude, but...

[!the!bad!fish!]

I swear, if Redhat ever actually gets into the black, I'm switching to Apple, stat. Fuck market share--I want something where nobody will bother me with free tech support requests.

Decembler 2002 - Red Hat has reported a profit using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

I recomend OpenVMS if you really don't want any bother.

Re:Linux vs Unix

[Anonymous Coward]

What about the BSD licensing makes FreeBSD less "widely and freely" available? It is the GPL, not the BSD license, which imposes strict restrictions of use. Therefore an OS like FreeBSD can find itself used in business environments without fear of reprisal. FreeBSD is significantly more free.

And for you GNUtards who are going to flame me with "GPL is more free because it gives the developers more rights," no it fucking doesn't. It takes away their rights to use the project as they see fit. BSD doesn't in any way remove that right. That's like saying that patents are more free because it gives the patent holders more rights.

OSNews, blah...

[vsync64]

While reading through the interview, I noticed such bizarre and nonsensical statements as:

Looking Red Hat's recent press releases and web site lately, it reveals a new, stronger effort to shift focus further into the Enterprise and leaving Red Hat Linux to the hands of the community for the home/desktop market while leaves a "hole" in the previous target of Red Hat at the "Corporate Desktop market".

At the end of the day, we have seen patents being so "duh, brain dead", that many have said that writing software is almost impossible anymore. What a solution for this issue OSS software should find, to ensure a future that is not striked by lawsuits left and right?

Once, you started a C++ wrapper for GTK+, but then the project got sterile.

Do you feel that Linux is replacing Unix slowly but steadily, or do they follow parallel and different directions in your opinion?

I said to myself, "This article must be by Eugenia Loli-Queru", looked to the byline, and lo and behold I was correct. The local rag is more respectable, which is saying a lot, considering that they routinely misspell the names of cities in front page headlines and such. Even JeffK makes more sense than Eugenia.

Re:Cool name

[IamTheRealMike]

Actually his real first name is Robert, Havoc is his middle name (iirc). Nope, I dunno why he flipped it ;)