Michael Tiemann recently took some time to do an email interview with LinuxQuestions.org.
Interview with Red Hat’s VP Michael Tiemann
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I especially like this part:
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I forgot about Linux until I got a call from Larry McVoy, telling me that there was this software company in North Carolina (software company in North Carolina!?) that had about 15 people and was growing by leaps and bounds. It was committed to free software, and Cygnus should look at acquiring it. While I was not that excited about Yggdrasil, I did become excited about Red Hat. We held a board meeting to discuss spending 10% of our equity in 1995 to acquire Red Hat but I could not convince the two other co-founders to make an offer. Four years later, Red Hat acquired Cygnus with 10% of their equity. Sigh.
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“MT) I haven’t paid attention to hostnames in forever”
Does he mean, like you know what I mean, or maybe not, like forever, in gazillion years, or like forever in like yesterday, or maybe this is some kind of west coast lingo, you know what I mean, because I for one don’t know wtf forever is like when it comes to paying attention. Do you know what I mean?
If you stare too long into an abyss, the abyss will stare back into you.
(The god is kind of dead guy)