Linked by David Adams on Wed 13th Aug 2008 16:57 UTC, submitted by irbis
"I recently had the opportunity to interview Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of the extremely secure Unix-like operating sytem MINIX 3. Andrew is also the author of Operating Systems Design and Implementation, the must-have book on programming and designing operating systems, and the man whose work inspired Linus Torvalds to create Linux. He has published over 120 works on computers (that's including manuals, second and third editions, and translations), and his works are known all over the world, being translated into a variety of different languages for educational use universally. He is currently a professor of computer science at Vrije University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands."
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Take a look at some of the bright questions the interviewer asked:
"Do you expect a lot of Linux users to switch over to MINIX?"
Did the interviewer not realize that MINIX is for research, not for the desktop? If he did, this question would not have even arose. It seems the interviewer did not read what the interviewee wrote, especially the part where Tanenbaum writes, "...I decided if I wanted a UNIX-like system to teach, I'd have to write one myself."