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Linus Holds Forth On the Future of Linux

Posted by timothy on from the and-who-better dept.

colinmc151 writes "As part of Geekcruises' Linux Lunacy cruise to Alaska, Linus Torvalds was interviewed and answered questions about where he sees the future of Linux with a particular eye towards developers. Great stuff."

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  1. Linus about Mac OS X? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How come nobody ever asks Linus what he thinks about Mac OS X ?

    1. Re:Linus about Mac OS X? by Trurl's+Machine · · Score: 4, Interesting

      This question is sort-of-answered in "his" book "Just For Fun" (actually written together by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond). Linus seems to have almost religious anti-MacOS X stance. He is against anything that is proprietary - and MacOS X still remains proprietary on its most important layer. He is against the very idea of microkernel, so he is against Mach as such. It's funny, because this book is actually written on a Mac notebook, but as David Diamond notes, when Linus was reading his own words for approval, he payed more attention to the whole OS and the machine (and expressing his dislike for both) than to his own words. Probably that's how the silly mistake about "Apache, the most popular commercial Linux version" could have slipped.

  2. One thing for certain by El · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The open source developers will be amongst the last to see their (volunteer) jobs exported to India and China!

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    "Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney

  3. Re:another interesting read... by cpeterso · · Score: 3, Interesting


    Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma" is a great book. It is very similar to Richard Gabriel's "Worse Is Better". This theory also explains why inferior products like DOS, Windows, C++, and Java succeeded. They sucked in many ways, but they were better in some small, important way.

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    cpeterso
  4. Re:Linux on the desktop by broeman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I never got the feeling that the linux kernel is like the windows kernel32 ... I think he likes KDE because it is trying to move things (like windows is trying to), instead of GNOME, who wants to be perfect and clean (like Apple). Cloning windows/apple is only done because they in a hurry (if you call 5 years fast) wanted to create a usable desktop. Now that OSS is at the point of looking like Windows/Apple, the development can go even further and maybe in new innovative directions.

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