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In-Depth Upside Interview With Linus Torvalds
Anonymous Coward writes "I've heard that Linus will grace the cover of the next Upside. Their site posted the interview today. It's one of those huge, future-speak filled, all-encompassing pieces. Pretty good stuff." This may be the *longest* Linus interview ever posted online. But there's enough new information in it (besides the sushi comment; I didn't make that up) that it's probably worth reading.
Having been both an interviewer and an interviewee in the past --
Often, answers to questions will wander off into all sorts of tangents before coming back to the point. Reading a wandering comment is no fun. Thus the need to edit a comment into something short and concise that grabs the reader's attention while being faithful to the general point.
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Interesting. Every time I use Word97 under Windows 98, I end up getting a "This program has committed an illegal operation" and end up having to reboot.
I've been an Applix Office user since 1996 (when it was first introduced), and have never had it crash.
Netscape crashes, but it crashes just as hard under Windows. That's why I erased it off my Win98 machine at home, and is why I'll erase it off my Linux/FreeBSD machine at home as soon as KDE 2.0 introduces Java and Javascript into the KDE browser (it's coming!). The KDE browser already kicks rear. It's not going to take much before I can kiss Netscape goodbye!
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Yeah, I particularly wonder what Linux said that was paraphrased as "[nontechnical computer users]"...
Or perhaps we should play it like Madlibs, figuring out what would be the funniest words to put inside the brackets.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.