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Linux Journal: Linus & The Lunatics, Parts II & III

By Doc Searls

From Part II:

“Linus: Now we can go to the real Q&A.

“Neil Bauman: In the last year or so, Linux has
been embraced by a large number of established companies. [Do] 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.

“[Laughter…]”

Complete Story
(Part II)

Complete Story
(Part III)

Related Story:
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Journal: Linus & the Lunatics, Part I(Nov 26, 2003)

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