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Transcript of CNN Linux bit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

jeff sent us a link to the transcripts from the CNN Fortune special that was on wed. evening on Open Source, Linux, Red Hat, Linus, Microsoft, Operating Systems, and more. It was a pretty standard fluff piece, but hey, it was 10 minutes of CNN which never hurts.

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  1. it figures by davek · · Score: 2

    yet another linux piece that points out the fact that Linux is only for the computer-31337, thus ensuring that the world will be in the throws of microsloth for the rest of eternity. The only thing the CNN piece did was attach the OS name 'Linux' to one distribution: Red Hat. No mention of GNU or the GPL, no mention of the billions of software packages for the OS. Eh, but it's exposure. I guess you can't complain.

    Oh, and just on a side note, I hope that micro wins it's antitrust case. I have actual reasons for this, but mostly its becuase I want the to feel the pain when the world discovers that Linux can actually be a user-friendly OS.
    -davek

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    6th Street Radio @ddombrowsky
  2. quit yer whinin' by tm23 · · Score: 2

    You know, in about 1994, a colleague of mine was
    emphatically telling me about how this free little
    operating system he was tinkering with was going
    to pose a big threat to Microsoft. I looked at
    him pretty incredulously as he described what we
    all know as the open source model of development,
    and the fact that linux is free.
    In the intervening time, I became a convert during
    my time as an MIS guy working with relatively
    uncomplicated mix of Windows machines and Sun
    boxes, because it did a lot of things we needed,
    it didn't suck, and, hey, it's free.
    To see linux go from nothing to a primetime slot
    on CNN in less than 5 years is something to be
    applauded--we shouldn't sit here like geeks at
    a star trek convention nitpicking the broadcast,
    because newspeople who view their computer as
    just something to type up reports on won't
    understand that one can just take any cheap
    PC clone and turn it into a machine capable of
    just about any task in hours. CNN's audience
    isn't the slashdot audience (hm, maybe that night
    it was--slashdot effect in Nielson ratings?).
    Maybe next year, we'll see the penguins in the
    background of the CNN newsroom.