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Torvalds on Opening Solaris

Posted by michael on Tuesday December 21, 2004 @06:50AM from the writing-on-the-wall dept.

An anonymous reader sent in a link to this interview with Linus Torvalds, where the questions center on Sun's movement toward the open source world (and Linus' dismissive view of the threat posed by Solaris), as well as a few questions about 2.7 and the future of Linux.

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Re:How does he stay grounded? by Dr+Reducto · 2004-12-21 07:08 · Score: 0, Redundant

Linus is one of the most peculiar people. He is the most grounded, nice guy in Linux... yet many who follow him are narrow minded zealots. Its truely amazing that more people don't try to follow his example

Hey, he's just like Jesus!
yuo F4il it by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-21 07:27 · Score: -1, Redundant

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Competition is GOOD by melted · 2004-12-21 07:39 · Score: -1, Redundant

Wasn't Linus saying this all along? And now a strong competitor comes in and he gets all whiny about it. What is this? I kind of didn't expect this from the guy in his status.