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Linus Torvalds Isn't Looking 10 Years Ahead For Linux and That's OK

Posted by samzenpus on from the living-in-the-now dept.

darthcamaro writes: At the Linuxcon conference in Seattle today, Linus Torvalds responded to questions about Linux security and about the next 10 years of Linux. For security, Torvalds isn't too worried as he sees it just being about dealing with bugs. When it comes to having a roadmap he's not worried either as he just leaves that to others. "I'm a very plodding, pedestrian person and look only about six months ahead," Torvalds said. "I look at the current release and the next one, as I don't think planning 10 years ahead is sane."

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  1. Re: Linus Torvalds is for Swedish cows. by duckintheface · · Score: 4, Informative

    Torvalds is a Swedish speaking Finn. That's why he says "planning 10 years ahead is not sane". The Swedish word is "klok" which can be translated as "sane" or, more reasonably.... "sensible."

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    "He took a duck in the face at 250 knots." -- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
  2. Re: Linus Torvalds is for Swedish cows. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Torvalds is a Swedish speaking Finn.

    Correction:
    Torvalds is a Swedish-speaking Finn.

    (You forgot a hyphen.)

  3. Re:Stable driver ABI by 0123456 · · Score: 4, Informative

    If the ABI was stable, they'd be stuck with supporting crappy, crusty old crappy crap that some crappy old closed-source driver for some crappy old hardware requires, and unable to rewrite the kernel to provide similar functionality in a better manner.

    Like Windows.