Linus on SCO, and the Desktop Being 10 Years Away 827
An anonymous reader writes "In this interview from last week's Linux.conf.au in Australia, Linus Torvalds talks about how the SCO lawsuit 'riled' him and led him to spend a week writing an application to archive his email, and how he think Linux will take 5 to 10 years to become mainstream on the desktop."
How selfish of him (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I agree (Score:3, Funny)
Uh, I'll leave that one to you, champ.
Re:How much is your time worth now-a-days (Score:2, Funny)
Lucky you! Most of us geeks don't have girlfriends to archive our mail for us!
10 years away?! (Score:0, Funny)
Bummer! (Score:5, Funny)
And the number is .... (Score:5, Funny)
The number is, "literally", 7.
Austrailians (Score:3, Funny)
O T T A W A!
Eh.
best part of interview (Score:5, Funny)
A: One of the must fun things was I bought my wife one of those electronic picture frames... I didn't even know it - I just decided I wanted to buy it because we'd just bought a better camera, and we had some good pictures of the kids. So I went out and bought it, and only when I was uploading my pictures, the night before Mother's Day, I was uploading them and looked at the technical specifications and found out it ran Linux!
That's much more fun than big machines.
Re:Austrailians (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And the number is .... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Okay I can take this !!!!!!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Washington? New York? The article wasn't from the United States. And anyway, why don't you post something useful instead of complaining about a simple mistake. In fact, it might not be a mistake. Germans spell America "Amerika", while the US spells their country "Germany" when it is clearly "Deutschland".
Re:the biggest barrier of all (Score:5, Funny)
Re:the biggest barrier of all (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I agree (Score:2, Funny)
Wait, are you sure you're talking about Windows?
Re:I agree (Score:2, Funny)
Grandma shouldn't have to understand XML. The GUI utility should be used to configure the application, so the config file format is a non-issue.
Furthermore, for the Grandma lovers...
The GUI should consist of two buttons... "Solitair" and "Off".
Re:Austrailians (Score:5, Funny)
In case you curious we New Zealanders spell it "bastards"
Jedidiah.
Re:Linux Desktop (Score:2, Funny)
Then i can file...
Just a little bit of background on primary human languages.
The popular language of carbon-based biped humanoid lifeforms that is known as English requires that all references to the first-person singular using the word 'I' be capitalized.
You may want to adjust your translation interface for this usage because ignoring it makes you look stupid to the human lifeforms that employ this method of symbol manipulation for their primary means of written communication.
Good luck with your continued interaction with this species!
Re:I agree (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And the number is .... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I agree (Score:1, Funny)
> smooth, intuitive GUI can even exist
It has to exist! The proof is that in StarTrek they can operate the computers of an unknown alien civilisations in only a few seconds.
Week for email indexing? (Score:4, Funny)
But it has for example forced me to - they've subpoenaed me for a lot of emails, and I spent literally a week writing a tool to index all my emails, so that when they give a better criteria for me, what they really want, I can actually produce it.
Of course it would take a kernel hacker a week to write a tool to index emails. He probably wrote it from scratch in ANSI C with dependencies only on stdio.h and string.h. I can just see him spending the first day writing a module to do fast pattern matching across character buffers. Don't get excited Linus worshippers: I'm half kidding. Half.
Re:I agree (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Austrailians (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Linus and the P2P Fileswapper victims of the RI (Score:3, Funny)
Linus is the only person I've ever heard of taking a lawsuit as an opportunity to write some new code. The world needs more Linuses!!!
UGH! For the *last* time, people, it's "one Linus, two Lini"!
[grin]