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Alan Cox answers even more questions

Posted by Hemos on from the answering-them-all dept.

Mads-Martin writes "Well, it seems as though Alan Cox [?] has been kind enough to answer even more questions then the interview. Look at the September 3 entry. "

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  1. first patch by mountain · · Score: 2

    first patch

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  2. Bill Gates vs. Alan Cox by JabberWokky · · Score: 2
    Can you imagine Bill Gates or Steve Balmer answering extra questions like this on there own spare time.

    I am not defending Bill Gates here, but I'd imagine that even if he wanted to have an open session like this, his shareholders and corporate attorneys, PR guys and a dozen other "titles" would "need" to look it over.

    This isn't all *that* bad... it's only fair to the other people in your company. I have to wait until Tuesday to talk to my partners about an issue that came up this weekend. On Freshmeat, a package came out that has the same name as our nine month old package, and deals vaguely in the same arena. I can't just drop him a line (if it were only my project, I could), because I need to tell my partners and get their input as well.

    Bill Gates has several thousand "partners", some of whom have the sole job of making sure that what he says in public is what they all want him to say. That's one philosophy, and the other extreme is not great either -- look at Steve Jobs "Damn the torpedoes, I'm running this company the way *I* want to" philosophy.

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  3. Re:Grammar by SEWilco · · Score: 2

    Indeed. I've clicked on the most likely link without finding the additional answers, and now I'm here in this discussion finding nothing here. Well, I've only got two more links to click on to try to find those answers...maybe they're in his diary rather than his Everything entry...

  4. IS there a link to an ext3 resource? by e0n · · Score: 2

    He mentioned that some kind of alpha-like version was released. So IS there a link to a site with more information about ext3?

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    1. Re:IS there a link to an ext3 resource? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

      It's on Stephen Tweedie's public FTP archive:

      ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/

  5. Grammar by Booker · · Score: 3
    Ok, I know this is kinda lame, and I apologize ahead of time, but I cringe when I see this sort of thing. It makes Slashdot look a bit unprofessional... Somebody feel free to moderate this down to a one. :-)

    But - You guys really need a grammar checker and/or a copy editor.

    ...to answer even more questions then the interview.

    "than" not "then"

  6. Interview With Rob Zombie? by N1KO · · Score: 3

    Am I the only one who thinks Alan looks like Rob Zombie?

  7. Beards and other oddities by Alan+Cox · · Score: 4
    Why do the same people who think plastic surgery is strange and weird go around sawing all the hair off their face. Is the clean shaven myth the greatest piece of marketing brainwashing in western european history? They had to do something when sword making went out I guess.

    Some women btw like beards and anyone who thinks that something so trivial is the key to a successful relationship probably has big problems

    PS: yes someone sent me my user name (duh 8))

    Alan