Linus Interviewed 407
a9db0 writes "There is a somewhat low-content interview with Linus here in the Seattle Times about his move to Portland. It does have a couple of Linus classic one-liners."
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All the simple programs have been written.
Election 2004 (Score:5, Funny)
Horrible Writeup (Score:5, Funny)
Next time, a little background info would be helpful people!
and you're wrong (Score:5, Funny)
It's pronounced "Luxury Yacht."
SLASHDOT HAS GONE MAD (Score:3, Funny)
P.S.: And in answer to your question, the last gallup poll showed Linus leading Nader by two points despite the fact that 99% of poll respondents had never heard Tourvalds' name before
Funny (at least to me)... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Portland? (Score:1, Funny)
Those of us here in Portland cower under Microsoft's presence.
Proneenciation? (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm, does that mean Linux should be pronounced LEE-nux?
I don't know (Score:5, Funny)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2757067.stm
Maybe if you score out one of the existing candidates and write Linus on it instead...
No! (Score:1, Funny)
Thank you
Richard Stallman.
They missed the most important question... (Score:4, Funny)
Seems important to me, anyway
Re:Ob. comment (Score:4, Funny)
Really? From what I understand, he merely started a now ~15 y/o approximate clone of a pre-existing OS that is still not ready for widespread adoption on desktop systems (despite what many would have you believe).
And yes, I use Linux.
Obligatory LOTR Reference (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Highlights (Score:1, Funny)
You mean, selling freely reproducable bits in shrinkwrap packages with extremely high profit margins isn't the American Dream? It sure as shit is MY dream. Microsoft has over $40 billion in the bank because they were able to charge money for something that costs them almost nothing to reproduce after they poured investment into the first. That's a nice racket, and I for one think that IS the American Dream: to make easy money.
You open sores hippies just don't get it, and damn if your ideals are going to get any mainstream acceptance and end up devaluing my MSFT stock and other investments. A healthy respect for intellectual property is something America NEEDS for the american dream to continue to be there for the generation, folks.
It had to be said.
Re:But, how do you really feel? (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, Microsoft has a PR problem, but to call them greedy and anti-American Dream is taking things way too far. Microsoft fucking epitomizes the American Dream.
Microsoft made billions selling licenses to great software, and created a vibrant ecosystem where everyone respects everyone elses intellectual property rights. Linux and other communist-type free software ideals threaten to destroy that ecosystem which employs so many people! Take Econ101.
Re:Portland (Score:5, Funny)
I (as a Portlander) for one welcome our new Finish overlord.
-jim
Quote (Score:4, Funny)
Definitely the best line:
and I don't know why, but it made me laugh.
Re:Portland? (Score:3, Funny)
Isn't it obvious? He's gradually moving in so the secret anti-Microsoft secret commando mission can take place. Give it another couple months and Linus and his cronies will have infiltrated Microsoft.
Re:Election 2004 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Low content? Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Are you *really* Alan Cox?
Re:Obligatory LOTR Reference (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Portland (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Highlights (Score:1, Funny)
Holy batshit, you can't be serious?!
America is officially jumping the shark.
Re:They missed the most important question... (Score:5, Funny)
" ...whether or not he frequents Slashdot."
I do, but only for the goatse links.
Love,
Linus
Re:Election 2004 (Score:3, Funny)
Why not Hermann Goering...
Microsoft's PR problem (Score:3, Funny)
They don't need good PR, because they're focusing on other solutions instead. [bbspot.com]
Re:Election 2004 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Election 2004 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ob. comment (Score:4, Funny)
#!/bin/sh
echo "there are indeed 2 million folks developing for linux"
there you go. i.. umm.. developed that source, so make it 2000001 folks.
in other news... (Score:5, Funny)
I believe that this may provide a possible explanation for the recent eruption of a volcano (Mt. St. Helens) fairly close to the midpoint between Bill and Linus.
Some background (Score:5, Funny)
You're right. Let me write some basic info about Linus:
Linus Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) began the development of Linux, an operating system kernel, and today acts as the project coordinator. Inspired by the teaching system Minix (developed by Andrew Tanenbaum), he felt the need for a capable UNIX operating system that he could run on his home PC. Torvalds did the original development of the Linux kernel primarily in his own time and on his equipment. Torvalds was born in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, as the son of Nils and Anna Torvalds. Both of his parents were campus radicals at the University of Helsinki in the 1960s, his father a Communist who in the mid-1970s spent a year studying in Moscow. This caused embarrassment to Linus at the time since other children would tease him about his father's politics. His family belongs to the Swedish-speaking minority (roughly 6% of Finland's population). Torvalds was named after Linus Pauling. He attended the University of Helsinki from 1988 to 1996, graduating with a masters degree in computer science. Torvalds lived for many years in San Jose, California with his wife Tove (six-time Finnish national Karate champion), whom he first met in fall 1993, his cat Randi (short for Mithrandir, the Elvish name for Gandalf, a wizard in The Lord of the Rings), and his three daughters Patricia Miranda (born December 5, 1996), Daniela Yolanda (born April 16, 1998) and Celeste Amanda (born November 20, 2000). In June 2004, Linus purchased a home in Beaverton, Oregon and enrolled his children in school in that area. He worked for Transmeta Corporation from February 1997 until June 2003, and is now seconded to the Open Source Development Labs, a Beaverton, Oregon based software consortium. Linus and his family recently moved to Portland, Oregon in an effort to be closer to his employer. His personal mascot is a penguin nicknamed Tux, widely adopted by the Linux community as the mascot of Linux. Linus's law, a tenet inspired by Linus and coined by Eric S. Raymond in his paper The Cathedral and the Bazaar, is: "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." A deep bug is one which is hard to find, and with many people looking for it, the hope (and so far most experience) is that no bug will be deep. Both men share an open source philosophy, which has been in part (and implicitly) based on this belief. Linus Torvalds Unlike many open source "evangelists", Torvalds keeps a low profile and generally refuses to comment on competing software products, such as Microsoft's commercially dominant Windows operating system. He is neutral enough to even have been criticized by the GNU project, specifically for having worked on proprietary software with Transmeta and for his use and alleged advocacy of Bitkeeper. Nevertheless, Torvalds has occasionally reacted with strong statements to what has been widely perceived as anti-Linux (and anti open source) FUD from proprietary software vendors like Microsoft or SCO. For example, in one e-mail reaction to statements by Microsoft Senior-VP Craig Mundie, who criticized open source software for being non innovative and destructive to intellectual property, Torvalds wrote: "I wonder if Mundie has ever heard of Sir Isaac Newton? He's not only famous for having set the foundations for classical mechanics (and the original theory of gravitation, which is what most people remember, along with the apple tree story), but he is also famous for how he acknowledged the achievement: If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants ... I'd rather listen to Newton than to Mundie. He may have been dead for almost
three hundred years, but despit
Give-aways (Score:3, Funny)
I've heard that when celebrities mention they like things like Pepsi or Nike during TV interviews, they receive huge amounts of products from the manufacturers as a sort of thanks for the unsolicited and valuable publicity.
Gunning for a new toy Linus?
Re:some time between 95-97 I got the best bitch sl (Score:1, Funny)
Except for exercise. Get more exercise. Especially if you're going to take your shirt off at Linux meets like the one in SA. Thanks.
Re:Give-aways (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, I see your point. He must be looking for kickbacks from Cellphones, Inc., Refrigerators Corps, and Supercomputers Ltd.
Re:I find this quote more interesting (Score:2, Funny)
Hey! There is an ebuild that will automate that sig for you! And it will run really fast since you set the compiler flags yourself!
Re:Election 2004 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Minnesota (Score:3, Funny)
A lot of people from that part of the world seem to be.
I'd love to hear Garrison Keillor interview Linus.
So long as they didn't get into some kind of understated irony competition, of course. I don't think space-time could take it, you'd end up in some kind of conversational singularity.
the best name since Galileo Galilei (Score:4, Funny)
1) wow. I never would've guessed that's how you say 'Torvalds'. Those wacky Finns...
2) So that makes him "LI-nus LEE-nus"?
Re:some time between 95-97 I got the best bitch sl (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a great guy! (Score:3, Funny)
But I liked grandparent's idea a hella lot more. "Linus as Mothra". Whoa, dude. Whoa.