Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 10th Aug 2007 21:01 UTC, submitted by irbis
"Linus Torvalds was only 22 when he decided in 1991 to share with friends and colleagues the code of Linux, the new OS he had created. The computer science student at the University of Helsinki could not imagine the revolution his decision would cause through the IT industry in the years to come. In this interview, he talks about why he released the code, offers his views on Microsoft and says the future belongs to open source."
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RE[2]: I liked his comments on the Novell/MS deal.
by cyclops on Fri 10th Aug 2007 23:32
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RE[3]: I liked his comments on the Novell/MS deal.
by elsewhere on Sat 11th Aug 2007 02:33
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"He's always been a pragmatist."
Could you give examples of this other than his use of Binary blobs in the kernel.
Could you give examples of this other than his use of Binary blobs in the kernel.
How about the fact that he has claimed, ad nauseum, that he chose GPL v2 for "pragmatic" reasons. Frankly, Linus is criticized for being pragmatic so often, I've never had to see someone actually ask for citations.
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RE[3]: I liked his comments on the Novell/MS deal.
by Oliver on Sat 11th Aug 2007 14:27
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He's always been a pragmatist who only gets hot in the head when the technology, not the ideals, are compromised.
Then again, I kinda find Stallman to be a pragmatist in his own right, just more passionate about the ideals than the technology. He's not opposed as much to Microsoft, or against single companies, but more or less against the existence of closed-source software, and the very idea of it, in its entirety (the equal-opportunity activist, I suppose).
So I think they complement each other: the greasy engineer and the bearded academist. The fanboys and "advocates", OTOH, don't do any good to that relationship: they're emotionally driven to hate a single group of people ("die Bill, die!", stab stab...), rather than appreciate and make use of what makes FOSS the attractive model of development that it is.
I don't get such vibes from either Torvalds or Stallman. They say what they need to say (good or bad) and then go back into pursuing their respective crafts.