Interview With Linus 305
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.""
Ironic isn't it? (Score:1, Interesting)
Microsoft are lazy? (Score:2, Interesting)
Linus, always a classy guy... (Score:5, Interesting)
More Edison than Rockefeller? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Bah ... it *proves* that he cares (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Linus, always a classy guy... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:More Edison than Rockefeller? (Score:4, Interesting)
"Edison's strategy was to convince everyone that Westinghouse's AC current was unsafe. He hired scientists to travel around and give public demonstrations of this by electrocuting cats, dogs, and horses with AC current. His ultimate victory came with New York State's switch from hanging to the electric chair, which was, of course, powered by a Westinghouse AC generator."
Edison wasn't really that great of a scientist, he was just exceptionally good at marketing his ideas and himself.
Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, Edison... all great men, but ruthless as hell. Gates certainly follows in all of their footsteps.
Re:Sad, yet true (Score:4, Interesting)
I, on the other hand, dread the day that there is a wizard for every /etc file.
There are a couple trends I hate about GUI config, and certainly not all config programs are guilty of this, but I have noticed all of these "in the wild" at certain times:
Although nobody has made one that I've seen, I'd love to see a configurator that has the original text config file in a window pane below or beside the main options panel, and update it as options are changed, so you can see the actual commands and what is being changed. Maybe even color highilight the changed lines. That would rock.
We don't need to _start_ anything, just join one of the existing projects if you want to help: linxuconf [solucorp.qc.ca], gnomecc [gnome.org], webmin [webmin.com], etc.
Re:Why MS PATCHES? (Score:2, Interesting)
It's actually slashdotted!! (Score:2, Interesting)
This box must have some kind of bandwidth control because I can't believe a CISCO website would get slashdotted.
This has to look bad for CISCO.
Now would be a good time to mod up those mirrors instead of modding them down for karma whoring...
those who never study history... (Score:2, Interesting)
Kind of like Bin Laden and the US.
Wake up. Linux has (prettymuch declared) enemies. What you're advocating is the stance that the US took before world war II, and before the september 11th attacks.
Life doesn't work that way. You can't just retreat into your shell and ignore the world - if you do, someone in the world will come along and eat you (metaphorically speaking, of course). Those who don't adapt, die.
Essentially, closing your eyes doesn't mean other people can't see you, no matter how much you wish that it did.
Re:Its the squeeky wheel that gets the most attent (Score:4, Interesting)
Personally, I really hope that Linus and the others really are just in category A. Because I think that when people are focused on improving linux and not destroying microsoft the development of the OS will be much better.
Re: /etc = registry of linux (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Bah ... it *proves* that he cares (Score:3, Interesting)
In Aikido, you don't try to destroy your opponent by bashing hell out of him.
You destroy him by aligning with him, turning so that you face the same direction, allowing him throw himself using his own momentum. All you do is facilitate his action. He does all the work.
it's rather like bullfighting, I suppose. Only a fool would take the bull head-on. Rather, what's done is to let the bull pass by.
Of course, the matador then goes and sticks the bull full of spears. Linus, I think, is more subtle: he's slowly moving toward the wall. One of these times, the bull is going to run into that wall.
Which makes for an oddly appropriate metaphor, given that I'm really refering to Windows. Can't have a Window without a wall...
(And I suppose I could, if I worked at it, get in some bull-in-china-shop and stones-glass-houses stuff...)
Re:ligious argument (Score:2, Interesting)
Oh, wait. Mac OS zealots are constantly being 1) made fun of by everyone else, 2) told they are complete idiots, 3) reminded of that 95% operating system.
The truth is, passion for something one believes in is a good thing, regardless of what that something is. But fanatical devotion is when things can get bad.
I think Mac OS fanatics are a good example of how a fanatic should act. You tell others of why you think something is better, and argue to prove it. You don't kill people who you disagree with (as anti-abortionist fanatics do), punish teammates who "sympathize" with the "enemy" (as those RedHat fanatics did, and as government, and therefore society, does), or force your beliefs upon others (as every nation in power has done throughout history).
If only people were content to tell other people why they think something is great or better, and leave it at that.
"I think Mac OS is the best OS, and using it is its prophet," said the Mac OS, Windows, DOS, Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD user.