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Netcraft Interviews Brian Behlendorf

Posted by timothy on from the aternatives-in-action dept.

thejackol writes "The co-founder of the Apache Web Server Project and the First Chief Engineer at Wired Magazine was interviewed by Netcraft's Rich Miller about Netcraft's growth, the SCO case's unexpected benefits and changing the world through software. Excerpt: 'It's a good rebuke to the cynical but widespread notion that all it takes is a big pot of gold to litigate your competition out of existance or otherwise win a legal challenge. Good did prevail in the end. Hopefully it won't make us too cocky, because the next challenge could be much harder to fight.'"

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  1. Hillarity.. by JayPee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I find it hillarious that Brian, one of the people behind Apache is also behind the very raveriffic Hyperreal

    Now if he'd only bring back V-rave..

    1. Re:Hillarity.. by djdavetrouble · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Whats hilarious? That Brian actually had a life outside of writing awesome software? I knew him when he was a UCB undergrad... he also started the sf-raves email list back in the early 90's, and was part of the early rave scene in the Bay Area.. He used to host pre-rave parties too at his dorm room. He was always very social, talkative, and good with people. He didn't just sit down in the web crunching away on the workstations ... There were lots of other coders in the scene too, such as the guys from Twitch records. mw worked at Sybase, etc etc....

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  2. Re:not over by 0BoDy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oh, it's over. don't believe me read Groklaw Daily. SCO has told the courts too many contradictory things to prove any of them. They'll lose to IBM first, then Novell, then Redhat, then autozone, then Chrystler. If they sue anybody else they'll really be fscked. They probably won't exist as a company after Novell. (though technically you're right, the cases haven't been settled, dropped, or judged yet)

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  3. Behlendorf on SCO: Legal Cannibalism? by handy_vandal · · Score: 4, Interesting
    From the interview:
    Q. What's your take on the long-term impact of the SCO lawsuits? What changes - positive and negative - do you see it producing for Linux and the open source community?

    A. I'm assuming that thanks to the BayStar callback that this lawsuit is nearly dead. Of course SCO, could sue their own financial backers and prolong this further, but it feels like we're seeing the beginning of the end.
    Whoa -- now there's a thought -- SCO turning litigious against their former backers. Cannibalism among the cannibals ....

    -kgj
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  4. The opposite is always a possibility by ObviousGuy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Netscape sued itself out of existence when it tried to claim that Navigator was being boxed out by Microsoft. Double whammy for Netscape: Inferior product AND litigious management.

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  5. Re:Best? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's what happens when your first to the market.

    If IIS was their first then it would probably be a different picture.

    But then again the internet thing was Microsoft's first big screwup. They didn't take it serious and thus Unix was able to easy maintain it's dominance.

    Now that they are trying, it's to late and most people are too smart now to drink the IIS koolaid.

    But then again we have dotNet. But that's what Mono is for.

    Then people will have no excuse against continueing to using Apache. Good stuff.