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CNN Sits Down With Linus Torvalds

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the penguin-wrangler dept.

just_another_sean writes "Calling him 'reclusive' and the 'leader of the Open Source Revolution' CNN has an interview with Linus Torvalds. From the article: "I actually only work with a few handfuls so I tend to directly interact with maybe 10 - 20 people and they in turn interact with other people. So depending on how you count, if you count just the core people, 20 -50 people. If you count everybody who's involved; five thousand people -- and you can really put the number anywhere in between... Almost, pretty much all, real work is done over e-mail so it doesn't matter where people are."

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  1. Leader? by kanzels · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He is just working on Linux kernel, there are thousands of other open source projects. I wouldn't call him OSS leader :)

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  2. The Beating Drums by Quirk · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The tribes that talk through the likes of CNN count anyone as reclusive who won't go down on an ego dildo (microphone) and help CNN sell advertising space.

    The maddening crowd seems to be too intellectually limited to understand that their need for heroes, saints and sinners is about as interesting as reading a popularization of a first year anthropology text book.

    Not to mention the hours lost mugging for CNN that could have been spent productively.

    just my loose change

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  3. Has /. ever done an interview with Linus? by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seems like he would be a perfect candidate

  4. reclusive by mdmarkus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    reclusive (adj): Not having a publicist lobbying to get onto CNN.

  5. It's good to see that he didn't bite by Milton+Waddams · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seemed that CNN were trying to ask very pointed questions, trying to make Linus out to be some warrior against Microsoft. I like this part:


    KLS: Another reason, because it's an alternative to Microsoft?

    LT: Well that is, I think, played up more than it necessarily needs to be. Because there is a very vocal side to this which is the whole anti Microsoft thing. I think it makes a better story than is necessarily true in real life.


    For a techie guy who doesn't have reams of PR guys behind him and telling him what he should say, he handled the press pretty well.

    I thought CNN were supposed to be respectable, like the US version of the BBC or something? It seemed like they were just looking for some big scoop with regards to people being Anti-Microsoft rather than trying to have an interesting interview with a major contributor to an alternative OS.