Linux Interviews

Linux : Interviews : Bruce Perens, HP
Posted: ( Thu 4th Jan 2001 02:10:00[AM] UTC )
Hewlett-Packard's open source strategy was hard to get a handle on in 2000 -- but HP closed the year out by hiring none other than Bruce Perens, the man "who first announced 'open source' to world." Talk with Cameron Laird and HP's newly minted "strategic advisor for Linux and open source initiatives." Interview runs January 3-5.

Linux : Interviews : EGrail fills Linux content management gap
Posted: ( Tue 2nd Jan 2001 11:52:10[PM] UTC )
Making open source content management software that can be used by regular, non-technical people is eGrail's mission. So is making money. The two goals do not have to be mutually exclusive, said Al Brown, CTO of eGrail, an Internet infrastructure software product and services company.

Linux : Interviews : 10 questions with Miguel de Icaza
Posted: ( Sun 31st Dec 2000 09:21:02[PM] UTC )
"Red Carpet and the Helix Setup Tools are our two major user visible projects to be released in Q1. Many other improvements we do to the desktop goes directly into the core GNOME system or goes directly to the maintainers of the various packages."

Linux : Interviews : Mark Cathcart, Technology strategist with IBM; Member of the S/390 Software Development Council
Posted: ( Sun 31st Dec 2000 08:57:15[PM] UTC )
"[With Unix applications],we found that most software vendors weren't willing to make major alterations to their applications. But it's much easier with Linux. It’s like a duck to water. You get nothing more or less but just Linux running on S/390 hardware. The lure of Linux is the speed applications can be deployed. We could never deploy them fast enough for zOS."

Linux : Interviews : Leaping Linux: IBM's z900 takes it on
Posted: ( Fri 22nd Dec 2000 07:36:33[PM] UTC )
Mark Cathcart, a technology strategist with IBM and a member of the S/390 Software Development Council talks about IBM’s strategy behind Linux on the z900 and if he thinks Linux can really take this age-old platform into the world of open-systems.

Linux : Interviews : David Cantrell, Slackware developer
Posted: ( Mon 18th Dec 2000 07:05:02[AM] UTC )
David Cantrell is a core team member for the Slackware Linux Project. In this interview you will learn how David got his start working on Slackware linux, what his role as a Slackware developer is. He will explain his work on two new applications protopkg and autoslack, plus talk about various other topics of interest.

Linux : Interviews : Sam Palmisano, IBM President and COO
Posted: ( Thu 14th Dec 2000 06:21:50[PM] UTC )
"We decided to enable all of our hardware and server platforms, all of our middleware, around Linux. We have Freeway with Linux, and Shark...will roll out with Linux. From a hardware perspective all of our major e-business infrastructure offerings are Linux-enabled. If you look at our software, all of our middleware software--DB 2, WebSphere, Tivoli, etc.--is Linux-enabled. We're very encouraged by the progress."

Linux : Interviews : Charles Northrup, GNOME for Windows project
Posted: ( Wed 13th Dec 2000 06:45:36[PM] UTC )
Recently, Global Technologies Ltd. Inc created something of a stir in the GNU/Linux community with a press release announcing their successful porting of the GNOME desktop environment to the Windows platform. In this interview, the CTO sheds a little more light on the reasons for the port as well as why GNOME was ported instead of KDE.

Linux : Interviews : People behind KDE: Chris Schlaeger
Posted: ( Mon 27th Nov 2000 11:09:38[PM] UTC )
I'm the maintainer of ksysguard (formerly known as ktop). I did some work on the core libraries, mostly kdeui, but now have very little time for this. Recently I have spend most of my time putting together the KDE League.

Linux : Interviews : Richard Stallman
Posted: ( Mon 27th Nov 2000 10:05:03[PM] UTC )
I believe that it is good that companies can make money while respecting the freedom of computers users, and thus can pay programmers to develop free software. However the two companies that you mention [Red Hat, VA Linux] also distribute programs that are not free software. That is the only thing they do with which I do not agree.

Linux : Interviews : Matthew Szulik, CEO Red Hat
Posted: ( Mon 27th Nov 2000 05:04:55[PM] UTC )
Our business is highly corrosive in the proprietary-software marketplace and continues to have a long-lasting effect. When you think that we're fundamentally challenging a practice that's been in place for over 40 years, it lends support to my conclusion that what we're doing is quite radical.

Linux : Interviews : Eazel on down the road
Posted: ( Sat 25th Nov 2000 11:36:37[PM] UTC )
The next frontier for the open source software was usability. In almost every other dimension -- like robustness -- it had exceeded proprietary alternatives, but usability was lagging behind. This was not surprising, because it was a labor of love from a bunch of programmers who just weren't used to thinking of the mainstream end-user. Since my forte was usability, I thought perhaps I could make a difference.

Linux : Interviews : Userlocal.com interviews James Simmons
Posted: ( Wed 22nd Nov 2000 11:30:00[PM] UTC )
James Simmons is the creator and maintainer of linuxmafia.org (LM). LM has been around for about 3 years. Chances are that if you use slackware, you know about linuxmafia.org.

Linux : Interviews : Bob Young on community, criticism, and profit
Posted: ( Wed 22nd Nov 2000 06:34:47[PM] UTC )
In the second part of a two-part interview, Bob Young discusses the likelihood that Red Hat, which has not yet shown a profit, will continue funding programs like GNOME. He also says that individual members of the open source community have little in common, and draws contrasting pictures of himself and Eric Raymond.

Linux : Interviews : Ransom Love, Caldera CEO; David McCrabb, Caldera president
Posted: ( Tue 21st Nov 2000 04:40:26[PM] UTC )
If you look at Caldera, our whole focus has been on business, on how to make Linux a more viable comprehensive business solution. That's one of the reasons we acquired SCO. We intend to use Linux not just as a web server or a client workstation. We ask, how can we get Linux to be embraced by the entire business community and become a viable total alternative to the Microsoft environment?