Last month, Geekcruises’ Linux Lunacy cruise to Alaska proved that Linux and Open Source are hot enough topics to even warm up Northern waters. The feature of the trip was a candid Q&A with Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Courtesy of GeekCruises Capt. Neil Bauman and Senior Editor of Linux Journal Doc Searles, OET brings our readers an extended transcript of Linus’ shipboard Q&A, where he responds to Linux dev questions on the future of Linux, including the status of Linux 2.6, impacts from increasing corporate (and vendor) adoption, an ever-growing kernel, and even on the pending lawsuit from SCO.
Geekcruises Capt. Neil Bauman gets the ball rolling in our extended transcript.
Capt. Neil Bauman: In the last year or so, Linux has been embraced by a large number of established companies. You consider this a good thing, a bad thing? Are you happy? Sad?
Linus: I don’t care. I used to be a lot more worried about it. A long time ago I used to be worried about companies having their own (garbled) about doing this stuff. And that hasn’t been so in a long time. Companies now have two reasons to come in and embrace Linux. One is the lost penguin.
Link: OETrends.com
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