One openSource interviews Linus Torvalds

Quoting:So would it kill these alleged reporters to find someone else to talk to?

Probably (I've mentioned elsewhere my views on their so-called profession). If you were tasked with filling your employer's airtime/whitespace, would you want to try shoving some rambling account from some barely socially literate hacker at him, or would you go with the tried and true magic bullet?

Part of Linus' "job" (whether he likes it or not) is PR, and thankfully, he's damned good at it. Compare his efforts to Theo de Raadt's, after all, or RMS for that matter.

Yeah, I'd be interested to read whatever the kernel hacker at Google's got to say too, among many others of those who're actually on the front line getting things done, but I suspect they're far more comfortable hacking than wasting their time defusing kafuffles like "Linus says GPLv3 sucks!" Linus is doing a wonderful job for them, just keeping Information Weak[sic] away from them.

As for whether what he's got to say is old hat or rehashed, when I started in Linux, Linus was still in school. To some of us old farts, he's like a favourite nephew. I've enjoyed watching his and Linux' progress through the years. He's been steady as a rock, appears never to have lost sight of the original dream, and so far appears still to be having a lot of fun with it.

So, yeah, I'd like it if they'd leave him alone and try some other voices once in a while, but I'll still be one of the first to wonder what he's going on about now.

Sorry. Long live Linu[xs]! I hope he's still having as much fun with it when his grandchildren start showing up. :-)

Quoting:How about another article from Rob Enderle?

Hey Dino, please remember: It's the Enderle _GROUP_!

Quoting:How about these?

Very good Scott! The coming three weeks are my holiday, and I also wanted to do some interviews. There's a woman here in my country with a company that sells open source and she also knows about marketing - I wanted to interview her, but her company didn't reply and I forgot the name of the company... (Yes, stupid and sad indeed)

If you want to write something about GPLv3, IP and patents, without having anything to do with the boring RMS, ESR, Linus or Ubuntu, you should consult Arnoud Engelfriet. I remember his talk at T-Dose which I found very impressive, in which he told why companies such as Philips and Sony are very happy to use open source in their products (HardDisk recorders from Philips, and more devices), and why they even release (some of their) code under GPL themselves, and why this is a good thing for these companies. This is his site: http://www.iusmentis.com/

Also, there are two calling cards in my wallet, one from Sebastian Krugler which I met at T-Dose, but it seems pointless to do an interview with him (great work, Scott!), and the other from a start-up company which migrates companies from MS Exchange to open source products.

You might wonder why I write this instead of actually doing something. Well, there's a reason for it: I'm rather ill at the moment, but as soon as I feel a bit better, I should start some new stuff, instead of being a cow and ruminating the same decomposed food over and over again (yes, I'm very tired about this stuff too).

As a sort of complaint 'against Linus, Ingo et all', you might also want to interview Con Kolivas, without asking _ANY_ question about kernel code (in general!). That would be a nice statement (for people not knowing what this is about: http://ck.wikia.com/wiki/End_of_ck_patchset )