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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. Re:The Beating Drums by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    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.

    Aw, come on, have you seen the intros? The actress who plays Bones is hot!

  2. Dude! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Get on a treadmill, Linus! You're getting seriously fat. As in, unhealthy levels of fat. We all understand the growth of girth in one's thirties (happens to us all). The only solution is daily exercise. Do it! Personal health is more important than Linux.

  3. Re:The Beating Drums by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I would never bother to correct this with anyone less pompous than yourself, but it's "madding crowd", not "maddening crowd".

  4. He's not a good posterboy for Gays anymore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I liked him better when he was thinner, and looked more gay. Now he's starting to look like Balmer, and Balmer only WISHES he were gay.

    (Yes, he is (period))

  5. Sending a message to Rep. Wolf by twasserman · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I sent a message to Rep. Wolf. Here's how to do it. You go to his email contact page where he asks for your Zip code. Use the address of his office: 22601-4730 and give the street address: 110 North Cameron Street, Winchester, VA -- that's one of his district offices. You can fill in any name or email address that you like -- I used the name "Smarter T. Yu".

    I told him that the way to alleviate his security concerns is not just to ban Lenovo notebooks, but all notebooks and mobile phones with Chinese components. I observed that this would take the US military back to the telecommunications level used in World War II, which was the last war that the US actually won, so that this might actually be a brilliant idea.

    Finally, I noted that I would prefer that our US tax dollars go to companies whose profits actually stay in the US, so Apple and Dell were better choices than Lenovo. Of course, they'd have to stop buying Jeeps, which are made by Daimler.