An interview with Linus Torvalds [LWN.net]

An interview with Linus Torvalds

Posted Jul 2, 2003 6:40 UTC (Wed) by jarek (guest, #4105)
Parent article: An interview with Linus Torvalds

I much prefer to take a reactionary stance and see what people actually complain and care about, rather than having a "5-year plan".
I honestly think this state of mind is what has made Linux the success story it is. It speaks volumes about "satifiying customer needs" as the business world would put it. As far as I see, Linus never wanted to write a Unix clone, he just wanted to HAVE a Unix-like OS to run on his 386.

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From my amateur viewpoint...

Posted Jul 2, 2003 8:34 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

...it seems to me that the best developers of software are those who use it themselves. Witness Linux, the GNU system, XFree86, KDE, GNOME, GIMP, etc., etc., etc. The people working on those projects care about what they're doing, because they will use the tools themselves.

On the other hand, I hear tell from spies inside Microsoft that many Windows developers actually use *nix on their home machines. That should tell us something. :-)

From my amateur viewpoint...

Posted Jul 3, 2003 16:07 UTC (Thu) by danielf (guest, #11075) [Link]

I know many Windows admins at the senior level that use Linux at home :)

Windows developers use non-Windows: no scandal

Posted Jul 3, 2003 23:00 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

I don't think it says much that Windows engineers and admins use something other than Windows at home. It says Windows isn't oriented towards computer geeks. That's OK -- there's a huge market for Windows among non-geeks.

Male gynecologists probably develop a lot of things they don't use at home.