Ask Unix Co-Creator Rob Pike

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Posted by Roblimo on Tuesday October 5, 2004 @05:00AM from the in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line dept.

Today we return to our Slashdot interview roots with a "Call for questions" for Rob "Commander" Pike, who has been involved in the development of many modern programming concepts, GUI advances, character sets, and operating systems. We'll email 10 - 12 of the highest-moderated questions to Rob and post his answers as soon as he gets them back to us.

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Re:How do I by noselasd · 2004-10-05 05:06 · Score: 1, Offtopic

ln -s /mnt/whatever /c\:
Is it really a practical joke? by ari_j · 2004-10-05 05:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Unix and C a Hoax - is it true? ;)
Re:OFFTOPIC: New Virus/Exploit? by gregarican · 2004-10-05 05:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Not since I patched my machines the first time to not be succeptible to the oldschool blaster/dcom styles.
Re:Obvious (and probably redundant) by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2004-10-05 05:29 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Ovious and short-sighted: read up about the corporate history of today's SCO Inc. and you'll discover the history of a poorly managed, but essentially benevolent, pioneering Linux shop called Caldera Inc (which turned sour about the time it split in two around 1999 if memory serves), and also the history of a good Unix shop called SCO (the real SCO, now called Tarentella), that used to own a pretty fine Unix clone back in the days and that's been schlepping along, but essentially was honest.

Today's SCO is a combination of a Linux shop that didn't know how to compete with RedHat and ran out of cash, their financial bakers called the Canopy group, and its chief shitheat, millionaire Ray Noorda )who are hell-bent on (1) getting Microsoft and (2) making money off of lawsuits), and their buying SCO's (the real SCO's) IP assets.

In short, SCO hasn't been evil for a long time, and won't be for very long either, and I pity the poor employees who got stuck in the corporate quagmire...

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Re:Biggest problem with Unix by Just+Some+Guy · 2004-10-05 05:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Recently on the Google Labs Aptitude Test there was a question: "What's broken with Unix? How would you fix it?"
And along those lines, what should I list as my favorite color?

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Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
wiki by spoonyfork · 2004-10-05 06:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic

WhyCan'tYouHaveSpacesInWikiKeyWords?

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Re:Biggest problem with Unix by Snard · 2004-10-05 06:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Blue.... NO! Yellooooooooooooowwwwww...

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- Mike