[ Thanks to Kevin
Reichard for this link. ]
“Daily newspapers tends to do a pretty crappy job of
covering Linux, and my local paper is no exception. Today’s
edition carried a story on a local computer trade show where Red
Hat Software’s Bob Young is one of the keynote speakers.”
“In the article, the newspaper reporter–who is the Chief
Conductor of the Clueless Train–didn’t chat with Bob Young about
the impressive growth of Linux-based servers, the exciting new
desktop developments (KDE and GNOME) that should raise the
prominence of Linux on the desktop, or the exciting future of Linux
in a post-Microsoft world. No, he spent his time discussing the
fact that the Linux 2.4 kernel was late, forcing Bob into a
defensive position. Bob made all the right comments–that because
Linux kernel development occurs in the open, delays like this are
taken out of context by many people–but in the end, both Linux and
Bob Young looked diminished because the Linux kernel was
“late.”