Linus Interviewed

a9db0 writes "There is a somewhat low-content interview with Linus here in the Seattle Times about his move to Portland. It does have a couple of Linus classic one-liners."

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Highlights

[shirai]

For those who don't want to RTFA, here are some highlights from Linus:

• Now, many of the volunteers end up getting paid, and maybe they can't be called "volunteers" any more if somebody ends up being silly enough to pay them for something they'd have done for free anyway.
  
  
• In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. When you play with it, mommy isn't going to tell you what you can and can not do, and not going to take your toy away from you when she thinks you are done. You're an adult, and you can make your own choices. That is when you get engaged.
  
  
• I don't think the lawsuits have necessarily made a huge direct difference, but I do think that it has made a lot more people realize that maybe Microsoft wasn't the "American Dream" after all, but just another greedy company that might be better off with some competition.
  
  
• Q. How can Linux avoid the security problems that have affected Windows?
  
  A. Better design and actually caring about them. Having the guts to really fixing fundamental design mistakes, rather than trying to work around them.
  

More detail

[erick99]

Here is an article with more detail about Torvald's move to Portland.

Re:Proneenciation?

[JambisJubilee]

From Linus himself: http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/

Re:Ob. comment

[MP3Chuck]

Is that somehow his fault? Hell, read his original announcement on Usenet. He started it as a hobby. Now it runs on practically any architecture I've ever heard of, and then some. There are millions of people around the world developing for it. And one of the biggest corporations in the world sees it as competition.

I'd say that's pretty amazing.

Re:Quote

[michaeldot]

Me too. There's a touch of Douglas Adams about it... "The spaceship fleet hung in the air in precisely the way a ton of bricks doesn't."

Re:Election 2004

[nofx_3]

Even better yet is some good old fashioned Gov. VS Gov. deathmatch wrestling in The Running Man (A terrifc movie for those who haven't seen it). There is actually a scene where Schwarzenegger (Gov CA) and Jesse Ventura (Gov MN) duke it out. They can also be seen together in Predator. These are some classic political moments.

-kaplanfx

Re:Ob. comment

[el-spectre]

Correction: He created an implementation of an existing standard, which already had several other implementations, and took it to a new architecture, improved it (with lots of others), expanding it's abilities and hardware support.

"merely" indeed, troll.