Interview With Linus

Hairy1 writes " Cisco has an interview with Linus which discusses among other things his thoughts - or rather lack of thoughts - about Windows. When asked about Microsoft he said - "Well, I don't know. I'm actually not a big Microsoft basher... They're very good at marketing. They're very good at trying to see What do we have to do to sell this? The bad part about it is that it does have a huge market share. And that means that it can be lazy, sort of. They don't have much competition on the desktop, which means that they have very little incentive to really fix some of the problems it does have.""

Here's a mirror

[Krazy_Yak]

http://www.krazyyak.com/mirrors/tree.taf.html

Have at it.

Are you smoking crack or what...

[manyoso]

What the hell are you talking about? AFAIK Transmeta is not affiliated with Microsoft in any way. If you are referring to Paul Allen then read the article, he was bought out.

Bah ... it *proves* that he cares

[rebill]

Relevant quote from the article:

I was the technology guy who had no clue about business.

He admits that he does not know enough to have a good opinion, so he keeps it to himself. *Sniff* ... smells like "maturity" to me ...

I would also like to know Linus's true opinion on the matter, but his voice carries a lot more force than an unknown's voice (like mine!), would. That means that he has a responsibility to be more careful in what he says than I have to be.

... yeah _this_ time

[Kraft]

In this case you are right, but earlier he has been slightly more bitchy. Like this one [siliconvalley.com], where Linus respons to Mundie [slashdot.org] which cracked me up:

"I'd rather listen to Newton than to Mundie. He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less."

Although it was a funny quote, IMO Linus went too far with it. I'm sure all the Linux geeks giggled, but it's just not very professional, and if we want Linux to have a clean image (I do), than we gotta have a clean fight - not a cat fight.

You can order the video if you want

[alewando]

Videos episodes of the Charlie Rose show can be ordered from http://www.800-all-news.com/transcripts.shtml [800-all-news.com]. Their online search engine doesn't return values up to the present, so you'll either have to do it over the phone [phone]) or via email ( [e-mail] [mailto]. Since you get something of a discount when ordering multiple transcripts, you might also want to order last May's episode [800-all-news.com] where Charlie Rose interviewed Linus about his book.

Re:It's cisco goddammnit

[Anonymous Coward]

It's Cisco, the load balanceing king.

Cisco's loadbalancing products were actually pretty weak until the purchase of Arrowpoint, at which time they rebranded their gear the CSS11000 series.

The Localdirector is, to put it nicely, crap. The CSS11000s on the other hand? Spiffy.

Re:Same old, same old...

[furboo]

You may have seen it on PBS. It's Charlie Rose show #2946, which first appeared on 18 May 2001.
You can order transcripts from here. [800-all-news.com]

Re:Here's a mirror

[Russ Nelson]

They're slashdotted.
-russ

Re:I could be wrong

[perlwhiz]

According to this [800-all-news.com], this interview appears to be from last May 18th.

I suppose it could be a different one, but it's a Charlie Rose interview that discusses the same topics.