Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 19th May 2006 20:14 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
"Torvalds works full time overseeing the development of Linux which he created back in 1991 while at university in Helsinki. Usually media shy, the 36-year-old Finn invited Kristie Lu Stout and the Global Office team into his home for an insight into life at the helm of the operating system that is giving Microsoft some serious headaches."
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2005-12-23
"Interview doesn't really live up this description. It was similar to many other Linus interviews and didn't offer much in the way of personal insight."
I agree, a very generic feel with no vision. Very blasé.
LINUX is pretty generic though. I duel boot WindowsXPPro/Linux. With all the craziness of Bill Gates, I still think he offers a decent, if not morally skewed sometimes, vision.
He is a programmer and not a philosopher though and lately the future has been very unpredictable. I agree we are in the 'Live' era and Bill Gates mentioned how the CD/DVD was dead a while back but then brought up how we need it and is important lately, so a lot of conflicting messages there. Plus Bill doesn't really understand the idea of the purist aspect of coding C/C++, it seems (although he uses it for his .NET CLR), so I am a little miffed at that. Because of such a tyrannical closed mentality they have driven forward with .NET forgetting their roots. On the other hand, Linux can get puritanical, though.
I still like the Windows DIRECT feel with the properties tab menus for each file, instead of KDE's: everything located in the system menu. You feel like you have more power there. Linux still has that central communal servery (co-dependent) feel and Linus always referring to open source software as community based doesn't help break that non-capitalist sentiment to me. I still am a believer in the American way of an individual being the main inventor while depending on the community for competition to keep his ass in line. It's called capitalism.
Just because something is open source doesn't mean it's not capitalist. I still have the thought it offered more competition in a free market.
Today people don't really need new invention there looking for innovation, efficiency and stability so something generic got very popular. I think it's a good thing but I still like Windows although I still want it open sourced so I can see their patches and fix that dang thing properly when it breaks.