Interview with Linus Torvalds from NYT Magazine

aelfric35 writes "David Diamond drills Linus on topics from filesharing (sharing is good) to SCO (trying to claim paternity on his child) to his rivalry with Bill Gates (doesn't care enough to be a nemesis) in next week's New York Times Magazine."

Comments

Sounds like a bad episode of Springer

[dankdirk77]

SCO you little slut! So many people have had your code you ain't never gonna get custody (picks up a chair and hurles it downstage).

Ah, you have love Linus ...

[petabyte]

Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

Just reading that made me smile. Everybody takes this whole MS vs. the world thing so seriously its great someone can sit back and still have fun with it.

Oh, GOD!

[PurpleFloyd]

When asked about SCO, Linus likens it to a paternity case and has this to say:

Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux [emphasis mine].

I feel so... dirty.

Linus quote:

[bersl2]

So either we should make it a law that all geeks have dates -- I'd have supported such a law when I was a teenager -- or the blame is really on the companies who sell and install the systems that are quite that fragile.

I second that.

Both parts.

Re:Funny

[taion]

Hmph. He comes across as being somewhat arrogant, too, with comments like, "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."

Oh well. I'll probably be modded down into oblivion for this.

Re:Article unavaliable, here is the text

[tetrahedrassface]

exactly but only 3% us even read the article in first place. The rest are blathering fools and psychopaths intent on destroying the fabric of the universe by mindlessly blathering incomprehensible mantras like GNU-STALLMAN over and over and over again.

David Hasselhoff

[Entropy248]

In great Slashdot tradition, I have the article open in another Mozilla tab and holy shit! I've never seen a picture of The Holy One before and my god he looks like David Hasselhoff (after he'd had his face flattened by a bad Photoshop session). No wonder he's having so much trouble talking to others about Linux! What he needs is a really good looking spokesman... I'd suggest Sean Connery. What a Trekster (Trekkie?) dream come true. Open Source + Captain Picard = Mindshare people!

yeah but

[commodoresloat]

how many MSCE's does it take to screw in a light bulb?

None. MS simply declares darkness the new standard.

Open source Dating....

[nlinecomputers]

So either we should make it a law that all geeks have dates -- I'd have supported such a law when I was a teenager

So Linus supports open source dating. Well I can support that but the putting up a girlfriend on CVS for anyone to "contribute" to is just sleezy. On the other hand back in high school there was this girl that might have been the open source poster child...

Re:Open source Dating....

[r_j_howell]

makes me think of a conversation I had with a friend of mine once. him: You know, people keep saying the word "slut" like it's a bad thing. me: That's only hard to understand because you don't know the REAL meaning of the word "slut". him: Oh really, what do YOU think it means? me: A slut is someone who will sleep with anyone...except *me*.

Awesome line

[Kevin DeGraaf]

Wow, the last line cracked me up. My new sig:

Re:Funny

[The Kow]

Sure, but so does the President.. .. ..okay, point taken.

Torvalds the Destroyer!

[D.A. Zollinger]

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

Uh-huh. Sure. As unintentional as a bull in a china shop.

Diamond Dave

[isny]

For a minute, I thought David Lee Roth, a.k.a. Diamond Dave, was giving the interview.
So?? Linus? About this kernel thing? Yow! Are all those distributions guar-ar-ra-ra-ra-ran-teeeeedd... to satisfy?

Let's rephrase

[(void*)]

"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."

In other words, Linus doesn't care about the collateral damage! Just like a terrorist! <falsetto> Oh the humanity, someone stop the terrorist!</falsetto>

Re:*sigh*

[Z4rd0Z]

When I see things like this:

You gave Linux, the operating system, to the world free, in effect jump-starting the open-source movement.

I'm reminded how clueless 'journalists' are.

What kind of 'ra ra Linux' fanboy would think the above and ignore the history of gcc, alt/comp.*.source.* et la?

Precisely. I'm sending you to report this to Lord Stallman personally. And take this bottle of patchouli to him as a token of respect.

Re:Excellent slip in at the end

[MegaHamsterX]

For the slashdotter who doesn't read the articles and just looks for the pictures here it is.

Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.