Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Sep 2003 20:37 UTC
Today we feature a very interesting interview with Havoc Pennington. Havoc works for Red Hat, he is heading the desktop team, while he is well known also for his major contributions to GNOME, his GTK+ programming book, plus the freedesktop.org initiative which aims to standardize the X11 desktop environments. In the following interview we discuss about the changes inside Red Hat, Xouvert, freedesktop.org and Gnome's future, and how Linux, in general, is doing in the desktop market.
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>Havoc Pennington: As you know we've been more aggressive than other Linux vendors about removing potentially patented software from our distribution, specifically we took a lot of criticism for removing mp3 support.
Like i need a software company making moral decisions for me.You think i am going to re rip my CD's as so to put some kind of Funky RedHat copy protection scheme on them. RedHat must be high!
>Havoc Pennington: I would say that the nails are firmly in the UNIX coffin, and it's just a matter of time.
Does he seriously believe this? Linux is enterprise quality only in the minds of the likes of RedHat, Suse and Microsoft hating companies. UNIX will always be there remember the UNIX killer? called NT?