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Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions

Posted by samzenpus on from the ask-away dept.

Linus Torvalds was (and still is) the primary force behind the development of the Linux kernel, and since you are reading Slashdot, you already knew that. Mr. Torvalds has agreed to answer any questions you may have about the direction of software, his thoughts on politics, winning the Millenial Technology Prize, or anything else. Ask as many questions as you'd like, but please keep them to one per post. We'll send the best to Linus, and post his answers when we get them back. Remember to keep an eye out for the rest of our upcoming special interviews this month.

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  1. The obvious question: the binary blobs in linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is his stance on the subject today and why did he allow them in the first place? When will he kick them out?

  2. Re:Your 2007 Comments on C++ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is remarkably stupid. Your argument about return values is literally the same thing in C. Your program is just as prone to crash if you return garbage instead of a char pointer. You just hid that by using an int instead, which could also crash if you use the int somewhere where its validity is important. C or C++, you should just use -Wall -Wfatal-errors.

    For the record, Linus was obviously performing his usual exaggeration routine to get his point across, just like "NVIDIA... Fuck you" and several other remarks that make him notorious.